The paper shows how the original semi endogenous and balanced growth model of , and my extended version of it (), could be useful in explaining the key "stylized facts" of global long-term growth so far, and in predicting its dynamics in the future. During the last two centuries the sector of...

The primary purpose of the paper is to capture in a growth model the conflict of interests between the generation of the young and entrepreneurial on the one hand and the generation of the old and pensioners on the other. The model is applied to assess the size of the gap between optimal...