Long-Run Economic Growth: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Aykut Kibritçioğlu  
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Economics
484 Wohlers Hall
1206 South Sixth Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Email:  kibritci@politics.ankara.edu.tr
Homepage: http//politics.ankara.edu.tr/~kibritci/

JEL Classifications:  O10  O40  O30  F43

Abstract

Economic growth and development is a complicated process that falls into the domain of many disciplines in social sciences and humanities.  It is natural then to study fundamental aspects of economic growth synthesizing research in relevant fields.  In this short paper, we argue that this has rarely been the case in the economic growth literature.  We briefly discuss past growth theories and empirics, and present a broad framework to compare and evaluate work on economic growth from an interdisciplinary perspective.

 

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