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| Preface | |
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| Notation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Economic Growth in Historical Perspective | |
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| Quality and Quantity | |
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| Human Relationships | |
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| Economic Theories of Growth | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Measuring Growth and Distribution | |
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| Measuring Output and Inputs | |
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| Time and Production | |
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| A Note on Units | |
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| Technology in the Real World | |
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| The Uses of Output: Investment and Consumption | |
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| The Social Consumption-Growth Rate Schedule | |
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| The Distribution of Income: Wages and Profit | |
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| The Real Wage-Profit Rate Schedule | |
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| Income Shares | |
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| The Growth-Distribution Schedule | |
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| Changes in Labor and Capital Productivity | |
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| Comparing Economies | |
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| Global Economic Leadership | |
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| Labor Productivity Growth in Real Economies | |
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| Stylized Facts | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Models of Production | |
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| Accounting Frameworks and Explanatory Models | |
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| A Model of Production | |
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| Agents and Distribution | |
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| Choice of Technique and Production Functions | |
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| Particular Production Functions | |
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| The Leontief Production Function | |
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| The Cobb-Douglas Production Function | |
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| Classifying Technical Change | |
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| Two-sector Growth-Distribution Schedules | |
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| Models of Production and Models of Growth | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Labor Market | |
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| Models of Economic Growth | |
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| Labor Supply and Demand | |
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| The Classical Conventional Wage Model | |
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| The Neoclassical Full Employment Model | |
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| Toward a Model of Economic Growth | |
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| Growth in Real Economies | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Models of Consumption and Saving | |
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| A Two-Period Consumption-Saving Model | |
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| Solving the Two-period Consumption Problem | |
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| An Infinite-Horizon Model | |
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| Solving the Infinite-Horizon Problem | |
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| The Constant Saving Rate Model | |
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| Saving Rates and Growth Rates | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Classical Models of Economic Growth | |
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| The Classical Conventional Wage Model | |
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| Comparative Dynamics in the Conventional Wage Model | |
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| Labor-Saving Technical Change in the Classical Model | |
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| Choice of Technique in the Classical Model | |
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| A Classical Model of Growth with Full Employment | |
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| Choice of Technique in the Classical Full-Employment Model | |
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| The Classical Approac to Growth | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Biased Technical Change in the Classical Model | |
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| The Classical Conventional Wage Share Model with Biased Technical Change | |
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| Viability of Technical Change | |
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| Biased Technical Change and the Fossil Production Function | |
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| Convergence and the Classical Model | |
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| One Vision of Economic Growth | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| The Neoclassical Growth Model | |
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| The Solow-Swan Model | |
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| The Intensive Production Function | |
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| Saving, Population, and Steady State Growth | |
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| The Solow-Swan Model and the Growth-Distribution Schedule | |
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| The Complete Model | |
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| Substitution and Distribution | |
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| Comparative Dynamics | |
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| Transitional Dynamics | |
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| Limitations of the Solow-Swan Model | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Technical Change in the Neoclassical Model | |
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| Technical Change and the Production Function | |
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| The Solow-Swan Model with Harrod-Neutral Technical Change | |
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| Growth Accounting | |
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| Classical and Neoclassical Interpretations of the Residual | |
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| Comparative Steady State Dynamics in the Solow-Swan Model | |
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| Transitional Dynamics in the Solow-Swan Model | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Investment | |