Mata, Tiago; Louçã, Francisco - In: History of Political Economy 41 (2009) 5, pp. 334-355
Robert Solow's “Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function” (1957) has had an enduring influence on macroeconomics. In this article, we examine the history of fluctuations in growth theory through the story of the “Solow residual” as a “black box.” We show that after...