Table of Contents

Part 4: Technology.
16. Growth and ideas (C.I. Jones).
17. Long-term economic growth and the history of technology (J. Mokyr).
18. General purpose technologies (B. Jovanovic, P. L. Rousseau).
19. Technological progress and economic transformation (J. Greenwood, A. Seshadri).
20. Wage inequality and technology (A. Hornstein, P. Krusell, G. Violante).
21. A unified theory of the evolution of international income levels (S. Parente, E. Prescott).
Part 5: Trade and geography.
22. A global view of economic growth (J. Ventura).
23. Trade, growth and the size of nations (A. Alesina, E. Spolaore, R. Wacziag).
24. Urbanization and growth (J.V. Henderson).
Part 6: Growth and the socioeconomic environment.
25. Inequality, technology, and the social contract (R. Benabou).
26. Social capital (S. Durlauf, M. Fafchamps).
27. The effect of economic growth on social structures (F. Bourguignon).
28. Economic growth and the environment (W. Brock, M.S. Taylor).

About the Author

Stephen Durlauf is Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics, Laurents R. Christensen Professor of Economics, and Vilas Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a Fellow in the Econometric Society and in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.