The economics of growth / Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt ; with the collaboration of Leonardo Bursztyn.

Incluye bibliografía (p. [457]-475) and index.

Pt. 1. Basic paradigms of growth theory -- Neoclassical Growth Theory -- The AK model -- Product variety -- The Schumpeterian model -- Capital, innovation, and growth accounting -- Pt. 2. Understanding the growth process -- Finance and growth -- Technology transfer and cross-country convergence -- Market size and directed technical change -- General-purpose technologies -- Stages of growth -- Institutions and nonconvergence traps -- Pt. 3. Growth policy -- Fostering competition and entry -- Investing in education -- Reducing volatility and risk -- Liberalizing trade -- Preserving the environment -- Promoting democracy -- Looking ahead: Culture and development -- Appendix: Basic elements of econometrics -- A.1. The simple regression model -- A.2. The ordinary least squares estimator -- A.3. Multiple regression analysis -- A.4. Inference and hypothesis testing -- A.5. How to deal with the endogeneity problem -- A.6. Fixed-effects regressions -- A.7. Reading a regression table.