This paper reviews both theory and empirical work on economic growth and the environment. We develop four simple growth …

We develop and quantify a novel growth theory in which economic activity endogenously shifts from material production … environmental intensity, providing an endogenous path to degrowth in material output without compromising economic progress. Policy …

-style institutions? More generally, in an interdependent world, would we expect all countries to adopt the same institutions? To provide … theoretical answers to this question, we develop a simple model of economic growth in a world in which all countries benefit and … potentially contribute to advances in the world technology frontier. A greater gap of incomes between successful and unsuccessful …

over the past century, stagnates at a plateau as the U.S. sinks lower in the world league tables of high school and college …