THE ECONOMICS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Selected Essays of A.P. Thirlwall, Volume One

Economists of the Twentieth Century series

A.P. Thirlwall, Professor of Applied Economics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

This important volume brings together seventeen major essays written by A.P. Thirlwall over the last twenty five years in the field of growth and development.

Many of these papers make pioneering contributions, such as the author’s formalization of Kaldor’s two-sector growth model, his models of growth constrained by the balance of payments, his testing of the IMF’s supply side approach to devaluation, and his development of models of inflation, population and economic growth.

的一个有用的参考量,bringing together some of the author’s most important work for the first time.’
– Aslib Book Guide

‘The Economics of Growth and Development serves as a useful reminder of the author’s contribution to the discipline – this is a stimulating (and occasionally provocative) collection which should be of interest to more advanced students of the subject.’
– The Economic Journal