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Economic Growth

As taught in: Fall 2009

Photograph of skyscrapers in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

Shanghai waterfront, People's Republic of China. (Image by Keith Marshall on Flickr.)

Instructors:

Prof. Daron Acemoglu

MIT Course Number:

14.452

Level:

Graduate

Course Features

Course Description

This half semester class presents an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, focusing on the theory of economic growth and some of its applications. It will introduce a number of models of non-stochastic and stochastic macroeconomic equilibrium. It will use these models to shed light both on the process of economic growth at the world level and on sources of income and growth differences across countries.