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1 - A Brief History of Long-Run Economic Analysis

from Part I - The Long Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2022

Gregory Ponthiere
Gregory Ponthiere
Affiliation:
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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This introduction presents the main challenges raised by the economic analysis of the long period, as well as the most recent economic approach called Unified Growth Theory. The introduction also presents the goal of this textbook - to allow all students from economics and the social sciences to have access to Unified Growth Theory, as well as the different parts and chapters of the textbook.

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History of economic thoughtlong-run dynamicsMalthusMarxMarshallKondratievRostowSolowGalor
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The Economics of the Long Period , pp. 9 - 31
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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