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Dear Duncan,
I am interested in buying your book. Will it be available in
bookstores (like Labyrinth Books) in late March when I'll do a quick
journey in NY & Washington D.C.?
Which is the mathematics used in the book? I am curious about what
is the meaning of 'advanced undergraduate' students.
riccardo
At 16:12 +0100 28-01-2000, Duncan K. Foley wrote:
>ANNOUNCING A NEW GROWTH TEXT
>
>(This announcement can be forwarded to other economomics lists or
>individuals.)
>
>Growth and Distribution, by Duncan K. Foley and Thomas R. Michl (Harvard
>University Press, 1999, www.hup.harvard.edu) is a new growth text aimed
>at advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and
>macroeconomists specializing in growth, development, and political
>economy. The text presents a Classical (Marxian-Ricardian) model, the
>Solow-Swan model, and a demand-constrained model in parallel, giving
>students some appreciation of the underlying differences in these
>approaches. It features a balance between theoretical and empirical
>material, with particular emphasis on the trade-offs between the wage
>rate and profit rate and between consumption and growth. While most of
>the theoretical discussion summarizes developments in the existing
>literature, the book also offers some new material on the Classical
>interpretation of the aggregate production function, the role of land
>and resources in a model of capital accumulation, the effect of social
>security in an overlapping generations model, and other topics.
>Duncan K. Foley
>Department of Economics
>Graduate Faculty
>New School University
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