In the Kingdom of Solovia: The Rise of Growth Economics at MIT, 1956-1970

From its flow tide, fueled by the Cold War, to its ebbing with the anti-growth movement and the economic crises of the early 1970s, the "growthmen" of MIT stood at the center of the dominant field in macroeconomics. The history of MIT growth economics is traced from Solow's seminal neoclassical growth model of 1956 through the stabilization of growth theory in the first graduate textbooks.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Boianovsky, Mauro ; Hoover, Kevin D.
Publisher:	Durham, NC : Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE)
Subject:	growth theory \| development economics \| MIT \| Robert Solow \| endogenous growth models \| technical progress

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Series:	CHOPE Working Paper ; 2013-04
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	896297543 [GVK] hdl:10419/149695 [Handle] RePEc:hec:heccee:2013-4 [RePEc]
Classification:	B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 ; B22 - Macroeconomics ; O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity ; O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; E12 - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian ; E13 - Neoclassical
Source:	EconStor

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