文档介绍：CNMCGROWTH ECONOMIC
ECONOMIC GROWTH Second Edition
Robert J. Barro AND Xavier Sala-i-Martin
This graduate level text on economic growth surveys neoclassical and more recent growth theories, stressing
their empirical implications and the relation of theory to data and evidence. The authors have undertaken a
major revision for the long-awaited second edition of this widely used text, the first modern textbook devoted ECONOMIC GROWTH Second Edition
to growth theory. The book has been expanded in many areas and incorporates the latest research.
After an introductory discussion of economic growth, the book examines neoclassical growth theories, from Robert J. Barro AND Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Solow–Swan in the 1950s and Cass–Koopmans in the 1960s to more recent refinements; this is followed by a
discussion of extensions to the model, with expanded treatment in this edition of heterogeneity of households.
The book then turns to endogenous growth theory, discussing, among other topics, models of endogenous tech-
nological progress (with an expanded discussion in this edition of the role of petition in the growth
process), technological diffusion, and an endogenous determination of labor supply and population. The authors
then explain the essentials of growth accounting and apply this framework to endogenous growth models. The
final chapters cover empirical analysis of regions and empirical evidence on economic growth for a broad panel
of countries from 1960 to 2000. The updated treatment of cross-country growth regressions for this edition uses
the new Summers–Heston data set on world e piled through 2000.
Robert J. Barro is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University and senior fellow of
the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New EditionSecond
Millennium (MIT Press, 2002), Getting It Right (MIT Press, 1997), and Determinants of Economic Growth (MIT