Optimal growth economics : an investigation of the contemporary issues and the prospect for sustainable growth Optimal Growth Economics is concerned with the investigation of the contemporary issues in general economics and growth economics and in the formulation of optimal growth programs especially the issue of the sustainability of growth. This book proposes the development of optimal growth economics as a distinct coherent and practical discipline useful for social choice by using the techniques of mathematical modelling and computing to address a wide range of emerging and enduring issues in economics. A considerable number of optimal economic growth models have been developed in the book to address the crucial issues of different branches in economics including growth and development economics economic planning welfare economics environmental economics human capital development political economy natural resources and the economics of uncertainty Introduction Sardar M.N. Islam The social discount rate and optimal growth economics : the interrelationships and social choices Sardar M.N. Islam Optimal intertemporal environmental economics : formulation of optimal sustainable growth programs Sardar M.N. Islam Optimal national economic growth Sardar M.N. Islam Optimal intertemporal global economic growth : growth prospects globalisation and convergence Sardar M.N. Islam Optimal intertemporal climate change economics : a country perspective Sardar M.N. Islam Optimal growth economics : the framework for modelling and analysis in this study Sardar M.N. Optimal intertemporal ecological economics : a cost benefit analysis of growth for global sustainability Sardar M.N. Islam Optimal economic growth under uncertainty and complex dynamics Sardar M.N. Islam A smorgasbord of topics Sardar M.N. Islam Contemporary world and optimal growth economics : summary major findings and conclusions Sardar M.N. Islam Computational optimal growth economics : the dynamic optimisation methods Sardar M.N. Islam. Optimal Growth Economics is concerned with the investigation of the contemporary issues in general economics and growth economics and in the formulation of optimal growth programs especially the issue of the sustainability of growth. This book proposes the development of optimal growth economics as a distinct coherent and practical discipline useful for social choice by using the techniques of mathematical modelling and computing to address a wide range of emerging and enduring issues in economics. A considerable number of optimal economic growth models have been developed in the book to address the crucial issues of different branches in economics including growth and development economics economic planning welfare economics environmental economics human capital development political economy natural resources and the economics of uncertainty