A Guide to Further Reading
Knowledge Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations appeared in 2006 without a bibliography,rendering it more suitable to airplane reading than classroom use. That is not such a bad thing for a book about technical economics. (The British Wallpaper guidebook series breveted it “best long-haul read” last year.) But the fact is that Knowledge has many potential classroom uses.
On the jump, please find a guide to further reading in the rapidly developing literature of growth economics:
Three excellent books for companion reading are:
Introduction to Economic Growth, Charles I. Jones, W.W. Norton, 1st edition, 1998, 2nd edition, 2002
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane, Princeton University Press, 2004
The Mystery of Economic Growth, Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University Press, 2004
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Daron Acemoglu’s Home Page: econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/
Charles Jones Home Page: elsa.berkeley.edu/~chad/
Paul Romer’s Home Page: www.stanford.edu/~promer/
Economic Growth Resources: www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/
Against Intellectual Property, Michelle Boldrin and David Levine’s Home Page: www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm
Other textbooks include:
Economic Growth, Robert J. Barro and Xavier Sala-I-Martin, 1st edition, McGraw Hill, 1995; 2nd edition, MIT Press, 2004
The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods and Club Goods, Richard Cornes and Todd Sandler, Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 1996
Endogenous Growth Theory, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, MIT Press, 1998
Technology, Growth and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective, Vernon Ruttan, Oxford University Press, 2001
Economic Growth, David N. Weil, Pearson/Addison Wesley, 2005
Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, Daron Acemoglu, forthcoming, econ-www.mit.edu/files/259
“The Story of Economics,” Chapter 30, Macroeconomics, Olivier Blanchard, 5th edition, Prentice-Hall, 2007.
Other sources, arranged chronologically:
Growth Economics: a Reader, edited by Amartya Sen, Penguin Books, 1960
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors, edited by Richard R. Nelson, National Bureau of Economic Research, Princeton University Press, 1962
Economic Growth and Structure: Selected Essays, Simon Kuznets, W.W. Norton, 1965
Essays on the Theory of Optimal Economic Growth, edited by Karl Shell, MIT Press, 1967
Invention, Growth and Welfare: A Theoretical Treatment of Technological Change, William D. Nordhaus, MIT Press, 1969.
Growth Theory: An Exposition, Robert Solow, Oxford University Press, 1st edition, 1970; 2nd edition, 2000
Patents, Invention and Economic Change, Jacob Schmookler, Harvard University Press, 1972
Technological Choice, Innovation and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteeth Century, Paul A. David, Cambridge University Press, 1975
Dynamic Economics, Burton H. Klein, Harvard University Press, 1977
Accounting for Slower Economic Growth: The United States in the 1970s, Edward F. Denison, The Brookings Institution, 1979
Structure and Change in Economic History, Douglass C. North, W.W. Norton, 1981
The Rise and Decline of Nations, Mancur Olson, Yale University Press, 1982
An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter, Harvard University Press, 1982
Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics, Nathan Rosenberg, Cambridge University Press, 1982
“Dynamic Competitive Equilibria with Externalities, Increasing Returns and Unbounded Growth,” Paul Michael Romer, Dissertation, University of Chicago
Innovation and Growth: Schumpeterian Perspectives, F.M Scherer, MIT Press, 1984
Economic History and the Modern Economist, edited by William Parker, Basil Blackwell, 1986
Technology, Education and Productivity, Zvi Griliches, Basil Blackwell, 1988
The Sources of Innovation, Eric von Hippel, Oxford University Press, 1988
Thinking About Growth: and Other Easays on Economic Growth and Welfare, Moses Abramovitz, 1989
Productivity and American Leadership: the Long View, William J. Baumol, Sue Anne Batey Blackman and Edward N. Wolff, MIT Press, 1989
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress, Joel Mokyr, Oxford University Press, 1990
Growth, Productivity, Unemployment: Essays to Celebrate Bob Solow’s Birthday, edited by Peter Diamond, MIT Press, 1990
Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present; With a Perspective on the Next Century, W.W. Rostow, Oxford University Press, 1990
The Competitive Advantage of Nations, Michael Porter, The Free Press, 1990
Restoring Economic Equilibrium, Theodore W. Schultz, Basil Blackwell, 1990
Technology and the Wealth of Nations, edited by Nathan Rosenberg, Ralph Landau and David C. Mowery, Stanford University Press, 1992
The Return to Increasing Returns, edited by James Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon, University of Michigan Press, 1994
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy, W. Brian Arthur, foreward by Kenneth J. Arrow, University of Michigan Press, 1994
“New Growth Theory Symposium,” with articles by Paul Romer, Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman, Robert Solow and Howard Pack, Journal of Economic Perspectives, , Winter, 1994
Development, Geography and Economic Theory, Paul Krugman, MIT Press, 1995
Productivity: Post-War U.S. Economic Growth, Dale W. Jorgenson, MIT Press, 1995
Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence, edited by Gene M. Grossman, 2 vol., Edward Elgar, 1996
The Sources of Economic Growth, Richard Nelson, Harvard University Press, 1996
The Economic Laws of Scientific Research, Terence Kealy, MacMillan Press, 1996
The Economics of New Goods, edited by Timothy F. Bresnahan and Robert J. Gordon, National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago Press, 1997
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations, edited by Alfred Chandler, Jr, Franco Amatori and Takashi Hiniko, Cambridge University Press, 1997
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Nations are So Rich and Some So Poor, David Landes, W.W. Norton, 1998
New Perspectives on Economic Growth and Technological Innovation, F.M. Sherer, Brookings Institution Press, 1999
Conversations with Leading Economists: Interpreting Modern Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard R. Vane, Edward Elgar, 1999
R&D, Education and Productivity: A Retrospective, Zvi Griliches, Harvard University Press, 2000
Barriers to Riches, Stephen L. Parente and Edward C. Prescott, MIT Press, 2000
The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, Amar V. Bhide, Oxford University Press, 2000
Lectures on Economic Growth, Robert Lucas, Harvard University Press, 2002
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy, Joel Mokyr, Princeton University Press, 2002
The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitaslism, William J. Baumol, Princeton University Press, 2002
Innovation and its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do about It, Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner, Princeton University Press, 2004
Handbook of Economic Growth, Philippe Aghion and Stephen Durlauf, editors, Elsevier, 2005, esp. “Growth and Ideas,” C.I. Jones, elsa.berkeley.edu/~chad/JonesHandbook2005.pdf
Understanding the Process of Economic Change, Douglass C. North, Princeton University Press, 2005
Philosophies of development aid:
How It All Began: Origins of the Modern Economy, W.W. Rostow, McGraw-Hill, 1975
How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World, Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Basic Books, 1986
Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen, Knopf, 1999
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, William Easterly, MIT Press, 2001
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets, John McMillan, W.W. Norton, 2002
Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stigliz, W.W. Norton, 2002
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created, William Bernstein, McGraw-Hill, 2004
Why Globalization Works, Martin Wolf, Yale University Press, 2004
Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance, David Ellerman, University of Michigan Press, 2005
In Defense of Globalization, Jagdish Bhagwati, Oxford University Press, 2005
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs, foreward by Bono, Penguin Books, 2005
Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty First Century, Deepak Lal, Princeton University Press, 2006
Escape from Empire: The Developing World’s Journey through Heaven and Hell, Alice Amsden, MIT Press, 2007
The Entrepreneurial Society, David Audretsch, Oxford University Press, 2007
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press, 2007
An East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Economic Growth, Indermit Gill and Homi Kharas, The World Bank, 2007
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism: and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm, Yale University Press, 2007
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions and Economic Growth, Dani Rodrik, Princeton University Press, 2007
Histories of economic thought:
A History of Economic Theory: Classic Contributions, 1720-1980, Jurg Niehans, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
History of Economic Thought, Harry Landreth and David C. Colander, Houghton Mifflin Co., 3rd edition, 1994
Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers, Robert D. Ekelund and Robert E. Hebert, University of Chicago Press, 1999
How Economics Became a Mathematical Science, E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University Press, 2002
Parallax journalistic views:
The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy, Diane Coyle, Capstone, 1997
The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution is Changing Our Lives, Frances Cairncross, Harvard Business School Press, 1997
Why Economies Grow: The Forces that Shape Prosperity and How to Get Them Working Again, Jeff Madrick, Basic Books, 200