Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost … industrial agglomeration and growth that propelled today's rich nations to dominance. That was the Great Divergence. The new … globalization is driven by information technology, which has radically reduced the cost of moving ideas across borders. This has …

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost … industrial agglomeration and growth that propelled today’s rich nations to dominance. That was the Great Divergence. The new … globalization is driven by information technology, which has radically reduced the cost of moving ideas across borders. This has …

At a time when the forces of globalization and automation face a backlash in large parts of the developed world for … future gain traction, the book The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by author Richard … Baldwin provides an insightful, clear and fascinating portrayal of the role of information technology in shaping globalization …

This paper compares two alternative growth paths, assessing the effects on productivity of specialisation in natural … exports either of natural resources or of technological products, and compare their role in productivity growth by GMM … estimation of a conditional convergence model. In general, reliance on natural resource exports slows growth, but we find that …

I build a quantitative model of economic growth that can be used to evaluate the impact of environmental policy … evidence on energy use, efficiency, and prices in the United States, as well as the standard balanced growth facts. I use the …