that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two … new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …

running from social conditions and factors to productivity growth. <p> The objective of the second issue of the Review of …

analyzing the determinants of long-run growth and convergence that is versatile, simple and empirically useful. Versatile, as … the same framework can be used to analyze how growth interacts with development and cross-country convergence and …In this chapter we argue that the endogenous growth model with quality-improving innovations provides a framework for …

analytical tools to design successful; strategies and appropriate institutions to achieve fast convergence and sustainable growth …In this paper we present the so-called Schumpeterian approach to economic growth, in which growth is primarily driven … micro-founded approach both, questions the old divisions between growth and development economics, and also provides the …

the 1990s, reflecting slower growth in OECD countries, a diminishing of the forces behind the convergence process given …This article by Edward N. Wolff of New York University examines trends in convergence in OECD countries toward U ….S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in …