New Tools of Economic Dynamics gives an introduction and overview of recently developed methods and tools, most of them developed outside economics, to deal with the qualitative analysis of economic dynamics. It reports the results of a three-year research project by a European and Latin...

"New tools of economic dynamics" gives an introduction and overview of recently developed methods and tools, most of them developed outside economics, to deal with the qualitative analysis of economic dynamics. It reports the results of a three years research project of a European and Latin...

Modern theories of economic growth recognize human capital as the main factor of growth. Strong investments of countries in education and research are justified by this fact. However, there are few studies analyzing the interaction between the development of human capital and the economic growth...

This paper reformulates the neoclassical Solow model of economic growth in discrete time by introducing a generic population growth law that verifies the following properties: 1) population is strictly increasing and bounded; 2) the rate of growth of population is decreasing to zero as time tends...