country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …

country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial …

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …

This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and …. Structurally, the equilibrium of stagnation differs from balanced growth by the presence of relatively many small firms of low …

This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and …. Structurally, the equilibrium of stagnation differs from balanced growth by the presence of relatively many small firms of low …