From its flow tide, fueled by the Cold War, to its ebbing with the anti-growth movement and the economic crises of the early 1970s, the "growthmen" of MIT stood at the center of the dominant field in macroeconomics. The history of MIT growth economics is traced from Solow's seminal neoclassical...

Overview -- Overlapping-Generations Model of Economic Growth -- Fiscal Policy -- Schooling and Fertility -- A Complete One-Sector Neoclassical Growth Model -- Two Sector Growth Models -- Wage and Fertility Gaps in Dual Economies -- Physical Capital in Dual Economies -- A Complete Dual Economy --...