Browsing by Subject "economic growth"
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Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Redevelop a Jim Crow State, 1960-2000
(2018)This dissertation shows how an array of policymakers, invested in uprooting an unequal political economy descended from the plantation system and Jim Crow, gravitated to education as a centerpiece of development strategy, ... -
R & D-based growth models with transitional dynamics: Evidence from OECD countries
(2017)Our study quantifies the impact of research and development (R&D) spending on technological progress, and hence on economic growth following the hypothesis that the second-generation growth theory best describes the data ... -
Solow's Harrod: Transforming Cyclical Dynamics into a Model of Long-Run Growth
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID), 2013-03-27)Modern growth theory derives mostly from Robert Solow’s “A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth” (1956). Solow’s own interpretation locates the origins of his “Contribution” in his view that the growth model of ...
