Econ 201 Economic Growth

Link to slides

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?