Econ 201 Economic Growth
Read:
NU's Robert J. Gordon, "Is US Growth Over?" VoxEU, September 11, 2012
NU's Robert J. Gordon TED Talk, "The death of innovation, the end of growth," February 2013
For interest: Gordon gives a TED Talk: "The Death of Innovation, the End of Growth"
For interest: A debate between Gordon and MIT's Eric Brynjolfsson
"The Allocation of Talent and US Economic Growth," Pete Klenow, June 2012
For interest:
"The real secret to Asian American success was not education," The Washington Post, November 19, 2016
The End of World Poverty is in Sight. Visual Capitalist, November 11, 2016
Awesome data from the World Bank!
Whew, food used to be really bad for most people, for most of the year. (Matthew Yglesias, March 18, 2011)
India has trouble getting clean water to its major cities?! (Matthew Yglesias, May 2011)
"The New Geopolitics of Food", (Foreign Policy, April 25, 2011)
The United Nations' FAO Food Price Index
Is China moving to the downward sloping part of the Kuznets Curve? (Reason, July 5, 2012)
For interest: Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years (An outstanding animation from the BBC, December 2010)
How rich are you by world standards? Check the Global Rich List
Where causes famines? (Jeffrey Sachs, Time Magazine, 1998)
Much of this data come from the work of Angus Maddison (1926-2010)
Homepage and data
Cool presentation of his work
Marginal Revolution University on the Solow Growth Model
For amusement: What are some of the costs and benefits of economic growth?