Preliminaries

This topic deals with some mathematical tools necessary to study growth. This material is really meant as a reference. If you have a good grasp of algebra and basic calculus, and are comfortable with how logs and exponentials work, then you should feel free to skip to the rest of the content of the course.

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Table of contents

• Levels and growth rates
• Logs and percents
• Logs and lines
• Calculus for growth rates