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2 - Empirical Elements

from Part I - The Long Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2022

Gregory Ponthiere
Gregory Ponthiere
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Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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This chapter provides a short introduction to the main economic approaches to the study of the long period, by focusing on the pioneer works of Malthus, Marx, Marshall, Kondratiev, Rostow and Solow. This allows us also to provide some genealogical elements to Galor's Unified Growth Theory.

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Long-run dynamicsGDPpopulationGDP per capitalong-run trendsinternational comparisonsgrowth regime
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The Economics of the Long Period , pp. 32 - 48
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Empirical Elements
  • Gregory Ponthiere, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Book: The Economics of the Long Period
  • Online publication: 11 August 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009169752.004
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  • Gregory Ponthiere, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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  • Online publication: 11 August 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009169752.004
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  • Empirical Elements
  • Gregory Ponthiere, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Book: The Economics of the Long Period
  • Online publication: 11 August 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009169752.004
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