Lectures on economic growth
By: Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Economic development
Description: "The most exciting field in economics during the past fifteen years has been that of economic growth. Economists are now beginning to find plausible answers to such profound questions as why some countries experienced rapid growth in the postwar era, while others stagnated; and why per capita income, which had been constant for most of human history, suddenly took off in the eighteenth century, the phenomenon known as the Industrial Revolution.

In this book, Robert Lucas brings together several of his seminal papers on the subject, together with the Kuznets Lectures that he gave at Yale University, to present a coherent view of economic growth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the mechanics of economic development; title: Why doesn't capital flow from rich to poor countries?; title: Making a miracle; title: Some macroeconomics for the twenty-first century; title: The industrial revolution : past and future.