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Background Lecture for Econ 210a
2021-04-07
: Why Did the Pace
of Ideas Growth Use to Be So Slow? & How Fast Is It Now, Really?
Zoom Room
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https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97240285431?
pwd=VldmeGdtNmR6eklqSGUwMGgza3hIUT09
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Readings:
A set of arithmetic calculations, a think piece, and two
modelling exercises (that you have seen before in David
Romer’s §§ of macro)…
William D. Nordhaus
(1997)
:
Do Real-Output
&
Real-Wage
Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests
Not
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http://www.nber.org/chapters/c6064
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Moses Finley
(1965)
:
Technical Innovation
&
Economic
Progress in the Ancient World
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/
2591872
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Michael Kremer
(1993)
:
Population Growth
&
Technological
Change: One Million B.C. to 1990
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http://www.jstor.org/
stable/2118405
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Charles Jones
(1995):
R&D-Based Models of Economic
Growth
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https://delong.typepad.com/fi les/jones-r--d.pdf
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The World Economy from Deep
Time to the Future
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https://www.icloud.com/keynote/08vSAzKv95qbedf-j_DFYvzAA
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https://github.com/braddelong/public-fi les/blob/master/econ-210a-2021-04-01-background-slow-ideas-growth.pptx
> 2021-04-01
