Unified Growth Theory
One ofChoice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011"Galor is the founder of unified growth theory. The theory seeks to uncover the principal forces behind the world's transition from the subsistence livelihoods experienced by early antecessors to the exponential increases in living standards that came with the Industrial Revolution. . . . This book is a must for anyone interested in economic growth."--Choice"Galor provides a mass of data and theory that may help to frame the role of education in creating economic sustainability."--Josephine Gatti,International Social Science Review"[T]he contribution to economic science provided by Oded Galor poses an intellectual challenge for more general macroeconomic models . . . which still need to provide comprehensive and endogenous explanations regarding the radical changes that affected the world economy in the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis."--Gianfranco Di Vaio,Journal of European and Economic History