Fifteen years of new growth economics: what have we learned?

Paul Romer’s paper, “Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth,” is now fifteen years old. This pathbreaking contribution led to a resurgence in research on economic growth. The resulting literature has in had a number of important impacts. In particular, it shifted the research focus of macroeconomist...

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spelling oai-20.500.12580-36802021-04-24T10:33:16Z Fifteen years of new growth economics: what have we learned? Sala-I-Martin, Xavier DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO MACROECONOMÍA CICLOS ECONÓMICOS Paul Romer’s paper, “Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth,” is now fifteen years old. This pathbreaking contribution led to a resurgence in research on economic growth. The resulting literature has in had a number of important impacts. In particular, it shifted the research focus of macroeconomists. From the time when Lucas, Barro, Prescott, and Sargent led the rational expectations revolution until Romer, Barro, and Lucas started the new literature on economic growth, macroeconomists devoted virtually no effort to the study of long-run issues, they were all doing research on business cycle theory. In this sense, the new growth theory represented a step in the right direction. 2019-11-01T00:01:32Z 2019-11-01T00:01:32Z 2002 Artículo 956-7421-137 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12580/3680 eng Series on Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies, no. 6 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ .pdf Sección o Parte de un Documento p. 41-59 application/pdf Banco Central de Chile
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topic DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO
MACROECONOMÍA
CICLOS ECONÓMICOS
spellingShingle DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO
MACROECONOMÍA
CICLOS ECONÓMICOS
Sala-I-Martin, Xavier
Fifteen years of new growth economics: what have we learned?
description Paul Romer’s paper, “Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth,” is now fifteen years old. This pathbreaking contribution led to a resurgence in research on economic growth. The resulting literature has in had a number of important impacts. In particular, it shifted the research focus of macroeconomists. From the time when Lucas, Barro, Prescott, and Sargent led the rational expectations revolution until Romer, Barro, and Lucas started the new literature on economic growth, macroeconomists devoted virtually no effort to the study of long-run issues, they were all doing research on business cycle theory. In this sense, the new growth theory represented a step in the right direction.
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title Fifteen years of new growth economics: what have we learned?
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