Unified Growth Theory
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Herefter er der essayskrivning inklusive vejledning. Afleveringsfrist for essays er 1. december 2009.
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Pensum omfatter følgende artikler (som [PDF]):
Allen, Robert C. (2001), “The Great Divergence: Wages and Prices in Europe From the Middle Ages to the First World War”,
Explorations in Economic History 38, pp. 411-447. [Link]
Broadberry, Stephen (2007), “Recent Developments In The Theory Of Very Long Run Growth: A Historical Appraisal”,
University of Warwick Working Paper No 818. [Link]
Clark, Gregory, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Princeton University Press, 2007 (udvalgte kapitler).
Clark, G. and G. Hamilton (2006), “Survival of the Richest: The Malthusian Mechanism in Pre-Industrial England”,
Journal of Economic History 66, pp. 707-736. [Link]
Galor, Oded (2005), ‘From stagnation to growth: unified growth theory’, In P. Aghion & S. Durlauf (Eds.),
Handbook of economic growth (Vol. 1A), North-Holland: Amsterdam. [Link]
Galor, Oded (2007), “Multiple growth regimes – Insights from unified growth theory”, Journal of Macroeconomics 29, pp. 470–475. [Link]
van Zanden, Jan Luiten (2005), “Cobb-Douglas in pre-modern Europe: Simulating early modern growth”, IISH Working Paper. [Link]
Hersh, Jonathan, and Hans-Joachim Voth (2009), “Sweet Diversity: Colonial Goods and the Rise of European Living Standards after 1492 ”,
UPF mimeo. [Link]