How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia, by J. Bradford DeLong : A Review Essay

Steven N. Durlauf

This essay provides a review of two important recent books on economic growth: How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia, by J. Bradford DeLong. Each book is noteworthy for its erudition and breadth. I explore strengths and weaknesses of these books and make some proposals on new ways to conceptualize and study long run socioeconomic development. My discussion emphasizes the importance of contingency in determining long run inequalities across countries as well the potential for ideas from complexity theory to augment standard growth modelling

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Year of publication:	August 2024
Authors:	Durlauf, Steven N.
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (issuing body)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Wachstumstheorie \| Growth theory \| Komplexe Systeme \| Complex systems \| Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz \| Economic convergence

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white)
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w32873
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Rezension ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w32873 [DOI]
Classification:	N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations ; O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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