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Introduction | |
Positive Growth Theory | |
The welfare of society and economic growth | |
The growth process | |
A production function of central importance | |
The CES production function as a general mean (in collaboration with Robert M. Solow) | |
Capital-labour substitution and economic growth (in collaboration with Robert M. Solow) | |
The long-term growth rate as a random variable, with an application to the U.S. Economy | |
Optimal Growth Theory | |
Optimal growth theory: an introduction to the calculus of variations | |
Other major tools for optimal growth theory: the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and the Dorfmanian | |
First applications to optimal growth | |
Optimal growth and the optimal savings rate | |
A Unified Approach | |
Preliminaries: interest rates and capital valuation | |
From arbitrage to equilibrium | |
Optimal savings: a general approach | |
Problems in growth: common traits between planned economies and poor countries | |
From Ibn Khaldun to Adam Smith, and a proof of Smith's conjecture | |
In conclusion: on the convergence of ideas and values through civilizations | |
Further readings, and data on growth | |
Index | |
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