Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics (History of Political Economy Annual Supplement) - Hardcover

Hoover, Kevin D.; Boianovsky, Mauro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822367270 ISBN 13: 9780822367277

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This collection addresses the history of modern growth economics and the role of the American economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow in developing it as a major area of research in macroeconomics and economic theory. While the concept of growth has been central to economic thought since at least the eighteenth century, the modern analysis of growth using formal models came about largely because of Solow’s articles “A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth” and “Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function.”
The essays in this supplement consider the rise of growth economics as an active field of research in the 1950s, its extension into other branches of the discipline in the 1960s, its decline in the 1970s, and its return to the center stage of macroeconomics over the last twenty years.

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About the Author

Mauro Boianovsky is Professor of Economics at Universidade de Brasilia, where he has taught since 1996, when he obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is the editor of Business Cycle Theories: Selected Texts, 1860 1939 (2008) and co-editor (with Kevin Hoover) of Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics (2009). He has written for a number of journals including History of Political Economy, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Professor Boianovsky has been on the advisory board of History of Political Economy, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cahiers D'Economie Politique and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He has been awarded best article prizes by the History of Economics Society (1999, 2007) and the Brazilian Economic Association (1996, 1998, 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822367270
• ISBN 13: 9780822367277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340