Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393977455 ISBN 13: 9780393977455

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

One of the hottest fields in contemporary macroeconomics, economic growth is both fascinating to theorists and critically important to policy makers.

In Introduction to Economic Growth―the only text in the field designed specifically for advanced undergraduates―Charles I. Jones explains in clear, direct language how economists have come to understand the long-run growth of economies. Beginning with empirical evidence―how rich are the rich countries, how poor are the poor, and how fast do the rich and poor countries grow? ―Professor Jones then presents the major theories of economic growth, from the Nobel Prize-winning work of Robert Solow to the new growth theory that has ignited the field in recent years.

About the Author:

Charles I. Jones is the STANCO Professor of Economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1993. He is well known for his research and papers on long-run economic growth. Jones is equally well known as an educator with a gift for distilling complicated subjects down to their essence and making them accessible to all levels of students. He is the author of Introduction to Economic Growth, Third Edition (2013).