Alternative Theories of Economic Growth Prof

Academic Year 2010-2011

Readings

Books

1. Foley, D.K. and Michl, T.R. (1999). Growth and Distribution, Harvard University Press, ch

1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16 .

2. Romer, D. (1996). Advanced Macroeconomics, McGraw-Hill, Boston ch.1, 2 (available at

the Economics library 020 01587)

3. Bhaduri, Macroeconomics: the Dynamics of Commodity Production. London, Macmillan

(chs.2 and 7) (available in English at the Economics Library 020 00770, available in Italian at the

library of Dipartimento Economia Pubblica e Territoriale )

4. Robinson, J. (1964). “A Model of Accumulation”, in her Essay in the Theory of

Growth. St. Martin’s Press (Available in Italian at the Economics Library 110 00348, also

available in English at library of Dipartimento Economia Pubblica e Territoriale)

5. Pasinetti, L. (1974). Growth and Income distribution, Cambridge University Press,

chapters 1, 5. (available in English at the Economics Library 020 00141 and also in Italian 020

00514)

Selected Papers

All the papers can be found at the library of the Faculty of Economics

6. Hahn, F.H. and Matthews, R.C.O. (1964). “The Theory of Economic Growth: A survey”,

Economic Journal vol. 74 (296) pg. 779-902

7. Bhaduri, A. and Marglin, S., (1990). “Unemployment and the real wage: the economic basis

of contesting political ideologies”, Cambridge Journal of Economics. Vol. 14 (4) pg. 375-

393

8. Solow, R.M. (1956). “A contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth”, Quarterly Journal

of Economics, vol. 70 (1) pg. 65-94

9. Solow, R.M. (1957). “Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function” Review of

Economics and Statistics, vol.39 (3) pg. 312-320

10. Romer, P.M. (1986). “Increasing Returns and Long Run Growth”, Journal of Political

Economy, vol. 94 (5) pg. 1002-1037

11. Mankiw, N.G., Romer, D. and Weil, D.N. (1992). “A Contribution to the Empirics of

Economic Growth”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 107 (2) pg. 407-437

12. Harrod, R.F. (1939). “An Essay in Dynamic Theory”, The Economic Journal, vol. 49 (193)

pp.14-33

13. Kaldor, N. (1957). “A Model of Economic Growth”, The Economic Journal, vol. 67 (268)

pg. 591-624

14. Solow, R.M. (1994). “Perspectives on Growth Theory” Journal of Economic Perspectives,

vol. 8 (1) pg. 23-44

15. Goodwin, R.M. (1967). “A growth cycle” in Feinstein, C.H. (ed). Socialism, Capitalism and

Economic Growth. London. Cambridge University Press (Economic Library 050 00061)

16. Bhaduri, A. (1975). “On the Analysis between the quantity-and the price-traverse”, Oxford

Economic Papers, vol.27 (3) pg. 455-461

17. Bhaduri,A. 2006. Endogenous economic growth: a new approach, Cambridge Journal of Economics,pp 69-83.

!8.A. Bhaduri. 2007. Growth, Distribution and Innovation,Routledge, London and New York Schumpeter Lectures, Chapters 1 and 4.