Economic growth : theory, empirics and policy / Benigno Valdés Díaz.

List of figures, ix -- List of tables, xi -- Preface, xii -- Acknowledgements, xvi -- Part I: Introduction: the “stylized facts” of economic growth, 1 -- 1. The “stylized facts” of economic growth, 3 -- Part II: the theory of economic growth with “exogenous” technical progress, 13 -- 2. The neoclassical model of economic growth, 15 -- 3. The hypothesis of convergence (I): Economies with the same steady state, 38 -- 4. The hypothesis of convergence (II): economies with different steady states, 59 -- 5. Economic growth and social welfare: The “golden rules” of accumulation, 74 -- 6. Growth accounting and the Solow residual, 88 -- Part III: The theory of economic growth with “endogenous” technical progress, 97 -- 7. Learning-by-doing, knowledge spillovers and economic growth, 99 -- 8. Schumpeterian models of economic growth, 131 -- Part IV: Concluding remarks, 165 -- 9. Theories of economic growth: and “New”, 167 -- Mathematical appendices, 174 -- References, 181 -- Index, 189.