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Economics for Business Lecture 17

In the last few lectures, we’ve looked at growth theory and the stakes involved in getting the basics wrong. We saw the Solow model’s predictions about sustained capital accumulation (): keep population growth low, keep savings () and therefore investment() rather high, and try to curb depreciation on assets. Technical progress and human capital move [...]

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Economics for Business Lecture 16: Growth and Convergence

Why are we so rich and they so poor? This is the fundamental question in macroeconomics. Economists agree that the main way to enrich a country and its people is to create the conditions which allow it to grow its way out of poverty. By growth, I mean GDP growth of course.
We have seen in [...]

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