Economic Growth

• A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth by N. Gregory Mankiw, Davud Romer, and David N. Weil, Quarterly Journal of Economics , 107:2 (May, 1992), pp. 407-437.

• The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital by Chad Jones and Paul Romer, Working Paper, Stanford, June 17, 2009.

• Divergence,Big Time by Lant Pritchett. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, Number 1522, October 31 1995. Also in Journal of Economic Perspectives , 11:3 (Summer, 1997), pp. 3-17.

• Esther Duflo has several papers of importance on economic growth:
  • Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT working paper, December 2005.
  • The Economic Lives of the Poor Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, MIT working paper, October, 2006.

• Do Real Output and Real Wage Measures capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not by William Nordhaus, Cowles Foundation Papers, No. 957, 1998.