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Growth Study Guide
  • Home
  • Introduction
    • What you should know about growth
  • Preliminaries
    • Levels and growth rates
    • Logs and percents
      • Intuition of e and natural log
    • Logs and lines
    • Calculus for growth rates
    • Present discounted value
    • Deriving marginal values
  • Measuring GDP
    • Real GDP growth
      • Two goods and two time periods
      • Many goods
    • Real GDP over time
      • Cash money
      • Quarterly growth
    • Real GDP across countries
      • Two countries
    • GDP per capita
    • Living standards
    • Comparisons with the past
  • Growth facts
    • Stable growth
    • Convergence and catch-up growth
    • Expenditure shares
    • Income and cost shares
    • Capital and returns
    • Balanced growth path
  • Solow and Balanced Growth
    • Production
      • Cost shares and elasticities
      • Constant returns and marginal products
      • Varieties of Goods
    • Accounting for growth
      • Accounting by products
    • Capital accumulation
      • Capital and Chinese growth
      • Firms and capital accumulation
    • The balanced growth path
    • Level differences
    • Visualizing the Solow model
      • An exact solution
      • Long Term Growth Model
      • Old school Solow
    • Human capital
    • Revisiting accounting
    • Case studies
      • Will robots take the jobs?
      • Why is growth slowing down?
  • Ideas and Productivity
    • Non-rivalry
    • Fixed costs and productivity
    • Measuring fixed costs
    • Dynamics of productivity
      • Do ideas get harder to find?
      • Free Solo
    • Stability and visualization
    • Productivity and population
    • Incentives to innovate
      • Sampling and innovation
      • The Romer model
      • The Schumpeterian model
      • Wheely suitcases and moonshots
    • Competition and Growth
      • Competing through innovation
      • Firm size and innovation
      • Is there enough innovation?
    • Case studies
      • Immigration and growth
      • Missing innovation
      • Taxes, government, and growth
      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Stock market valuations
  • Comparative Development
    • Development accounting
      • Structural change
    • Diffusion of ideas
    • Is trade good for growth?
    • Misallocation
    • Social Infrastructure
    • Institutional Inertia
  • Population and Resources
    • Energy and growth
      • What about food?
    • Growth with natural resources
    • Pollution and growth
    • Malthusian Demographics
      • Was Thanos Right?
      • From Malthus to Solow
    • Modern Demographics
  • Quiz material
    • Part I
    • Part II
    • Part III
  • Tools and Data
    • BEA consumption
    • Penn World Tables
    • Compustat
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