Economic Growth

Code:

LEC302

Acronym:

CE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2007/2008 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Grupo de Economia
Course/CS Responsible:	ECONOMICS

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
ECO	452	Official Curricular Structure since 2004	3	2		-

Main Bibliography

1. Manuais

FIGUEIREDO, António M.; PESSOA, Argentino; SILVA, Mário Rui (2005), Crescimento Económico, Escolar Editora.

2. Artigos

BARRO, Robert (1991), “Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106, pp. 407-443.
DE LONG, J. Bradford e SUMMERS, L. (1991), “Equipment Investment and Economic Growth”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106, 2, pp 445-502.
FAGERBERG, Jan (1987), “A Technology Gap Approach to Why Growth Rates Differ”, in Research Policy, vol. 16; reeditado in The Economics of Innovation (editado por C. FREEMAN), Edward Elgar, 1990, pp. 55-67.
KRAVIS, Irving (1986), “The Three Faces of the International Comparison Project”, The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 1, nº1, pp. 3-26.
LUCAS, Robert E. (1988), “On the Mechanics of Economic Development”, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 22, pp. 3-42.
MANKIW, N. Gregory, ROMER, David e WEIL, David N. (1992), “A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, pp. 407-437.
ROMER, Paul M. (1994), “The Origins of Endogenous Growth”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8, 1, pp. 3-22.
SOLOW, Robert (1994), “Perspectives on Growth Theory”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8, 1, pp. 45-54.

Complementary Bibliography

1. Manuais para consulta

BARRO, Robert e SALA-I-MARTIN, X. (1995), Economic Growth, McGraw-Hill International Editions.
JONES, Charles I. (2000), Introduction to Economic Growth, 2ª Edição, W.W. Norton.
SOLOW, Robert (2000), Growth Theory – An Exposition, 2ª Edição, Oxford University Press.


2. Artigos

DOMAR, Evsey (1946), “Capital Expansion, Rate of Growth and Employment”, Econometrica, vol. 14, pp. 137-147.
HARROD, Roy (1939), “An Essay in Dynamic Theory”, Economic Journal, vol. 49, pp. 14-33.
KALDOR, Nicholas (1957), “A Model of Economic Growth”, Economic Journal, vol. 67.
ROMER, Paul M. (1986), “Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth”, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 94, pp. 1002-1037.
ROMER, Paul M. (1990), “Endogenous Technical Change”, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 98, pp. S71-S102.
SOLOW, Robert (1956), “A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth”, in Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 70, pp. 65-94.

3. Outros Materiais

BANCO MUNDIAL, World Development Report, vários anos.
OCDE (2002), Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures, Benchmark Year 1999, Paris.
PNUD, Relatório do Desenvolvimento Humano, vários anos.

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