—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences …

growth and macroeconomic models. These systems are often studied empirically by ad hoc methods relying on intuition from … deterministic systems, such as looking for multiple peaks in the stationary distribution of states. We develop Markov wealth … others, and that their presence dominates the stationary behavior of the wealth distribution. Typically, mass accumulates …

models that connect learning and innovation to growth require closer attention and have important developmental consequences …

The literature on growth theory is rich with models attempting to explain growth differences among countries. Several … variables have been proposed many of which were found to be positively related to growth. However, a major problem with these … models is that the factors explaining growth are endogenously determined by their environment so that a slow-growing or a …