增长and Economic Development

The late Siro Lombardini, former President of the Italian Society of Economists and Professor of Economics, University of Turin, Italy

增长and Economic Development shows how the different theories of growth – from the classical to the endogenous growth and Schumpeterian theories – can be brought together to develop a satisfactory explanation of the varying rates of growth between countries.

‘The collection of imaginative essays reviewed here by the doyen of Italian academic economics, Siro Lombardini, is an ‘interesting and socially valuable journey’ by a supreme economic theorist, who is also a master of the history of economic thought. I cannot easily think of any other economist who can wear the Schumpeterian mantle without the slightest discomfort and, indeed, make its glow light novel paths along the evolutionary journey that the pioneers of our subject initiated and the frontiers seem to be encapsulating. . . . this book is one of the finest primers, at any level, on what, for want of a better phrase, I shall call Schumpeterian dynamic economics. Together with the modern classic by Nelson and Winter, this book could easily provide the basic reading material for an innovative graduate or advanced undergraduate course on growth and development from an evolutionary and computational perspective.’
– K. Vela Velupillai, The Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control