Introduction -- Natural resources and developing countries: an overview -- Natural resource-based economic development in history -- Does natural resource dependence hinder economic development? -- Frontier expansion and economic development -- Explaining land use change in developing countries...

Interactions between knowledge and health are studied in a three-period overlapping generations model with health persistence. Agents face a non-zero probability of death in adulthood. In addition to working, adults allocate time to child rearing. Growth dynamics depend in important ways on the...

"The 10 Rules of Successful Nations offers a pithy guide to real-world economics, adapted from the New York Times bestseller The Rise and Fall of Nations. A wake-up call to economists who failed to foresee every recent crisis, including the cataclysm of 2008, The 10 Rules of Successful Nations...

Mit einer Brutalität ohnegleichen hat sich der Mensch die Natur untertan gemacht. Die Folgen bekommen wir gerade heftig zu spüren. Vieles steht auf dem Spiel. Manche sagen, es gehe um alles. Die Erkenntnisse der Wissenschaft sind klar und nicht zu widerlegen: Auf einem Planeten mit begrenzten...

We analyze the optimal life-cycle education decision of a single atomistic individual and show that the standard result of part-time education and part-time work throughout the life-cycle holds only under very special and unrealistic assumptions. Once these assumptions are relaxed, different...