1. Textbook:
Barro, R.J. and X. Sala-i-Martin: Economic Growth, 2004. Cambridge, MA:MIT-Press. ISBN: 0-262-02553-1 . second edition.
2. Reading list:
Note: Only some of these articles are required reading. For most articles we will only consider the main points and results in lectures and seminars. Further guidelines will be given in lectures and on the course web-page, as will instructions on how to obtain the relevant articles.
Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson and J.A. Robinson: "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: an Empirical Investigation", American Economic Review, 2001, 91 (5). Pp. 1369-1401.
Aghion, P. and P. Howitt: Endogenous growth theory, 1998. MIT Press. Chapter 2 only, copies will be made available.
Barro, R.J.: Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogenous Growth, Journal of Political Economy, October 1990, 98 (5). Pp. 103-126. Part 2 . http://www.jstor.org/view/00223808/di971064/97p0239l/0.
Bils, M. and P. Klenow: Does Schooling Cause Growth?, The American Economic Review, December 2000, 90 (5). Pp. 1160-1183. http://www.jstor.org/view/00028282/di020242/02p0007u/0.
Bresnahan, T.F. and R.J. Gordon: The Economics of New Goods: Introduction, in T.F. Bresnahan and R.J.Gordon (eds) "NBER Studies in Income and Wealth", no. 58, 1997. University of Chicago Press. Pp. 1-26.
Easterly, W. and R. Levine: What have we learned from a decade of empirical research on growth? It's not factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models, World Bank Economic Review 2001, 15. Pp. 177-219. http://wber.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/15/2/177.
Hall, R.E. and C.I. Jones: "Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker Than Others?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1999, 114 (1): 83-116. http://lysander.ingentaselect.com/vl=1135064/cl=30/fm=docpdf/nw=1/rpsv/catchword/mitpress/00335533/v114n1/s4/p83.
Hsieh, C.T.: Productivity Growth and Factor Prices in East Asia, American Economic Review, May 1999, 89 (2). Pp. 133-138. http://www.jstor.org/view/00028282/ap000010/00a00250/0.
Irwin D.A. and P.J. Klenow: Learning -by-Doing Spillovers in the Semiconductor Industry, Journal of Political Economy, December 1994, 102 (6). Pp. 1200-1227. http://www.jstor.org/view/00223808/di980611/98p0204g/0.
Islam, N.: Growth Empirics: a Panel Data Approach, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995, 110 (4). Pp. 1127-1170. http://www.jstor.org/view/00335533/di976352/97p0024x/0.
Jones, C.I. : A Note on the Closed From Solution of the Solow Model, 2000. http://elsa.berkeley.edu/users/chad/closedform.pdf.
Jones, C.I.: On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997, 11 (3). Pp. 19-36. http://www.jstor.org/view/08953309/di980592/98p0035i/0.
Klenow, P. and A. Rodriguez-Clare: The Neoclassical Revival in Growth Economics: Has it gone too Far?, in B.S. Bernanke and J.J. Rotemberg (eds) "NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1997". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.
Kremer, M. : Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993, 108 (3). Pp. 681-716. http://www.jstor.org/view/00335533/di976343/97p0125n/0.
Lucas, R.E. Jr: On the Mechanics of Economic Development, Journal of Monetary Economics, July 1988, 22 (1). Pp. 3-42.
Mankiw, N.G.: "The Growth of nations", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1995 (1): 275-310. http://www.jstor.org/view/00072303/di009472/00p0122b/0.
Mankiw, N.G., D. Romer and D.N. Weil: A contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1992, 107 (2). Pp. 407-437. http://www.jstor.org/view/00335533/di976338/97p00385/0.
Nordhaus, W.D.: Quality change in Price Indexes, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1998, 12 (1). Pp. 59-68. http://www.jstor.org/view/08953309/di014713/01p0006w/0.
Obstfeld, M. : Dynamic Optimization in Continous-Time Economic Models (A Guide for the Perplexed), Mimeo 1992. http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~obstfeld/ftp/perplexed/cts4a.pdf.
Pritchett, L.: Where Has All the Education Gone?, World Bank Economic Review, 2001, 15 (3). Pp. 367-391. http://wber.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/15/3/367.
Romer, P.: Idea Gaps and Object Gaps in Economic Development , Journal of Monetary Economics, December 1993, 32 (3). Pp. 543-573.
Romer, P.: Endogenous Technological Change, Journal of Political Economy, October 1990, 98 (5) . Pp. 71-102. Part 2. http://www.jstor.org/view/00223808/di971064/97p0238k/0.
Summers, R. and A. Heston: The Penn World Table (Mark 5): an Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950 - 1988, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991, 106 (2). Pp. 327-368. http://www.jstor.org/view/00335533/di971081/97p0033m/0.
Thompson, P.: How much did the Liberty shipbuilders learn? New evidence for an old case study, Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 109 (1) . Pp. 103-137.
Young, A.: The Tyranny of Numbers: Confronting the Statistical Realities of the East Asian Growth Experience, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1995, 110 (3). Pp. 641-680. http://www.jstor.org/view/00335533/di976351/97p0005o/0.