This paper develops a unied growth model capturing issues of endogenous economic growth, fertility, and technological progress considering the effects of geographical conditions to interpret the long transition from Malthusian stagnation, through demographic transition to modern sustained growth, and the great divergence in GDP per capita across societies. The paper shows how the interplay of […]

This paper developes a unied growth model capturing issues of endogenous economic growth, fertility, infant mortality, technological progress, education and environmental qual- ity to interpret the evolution of history from Malthusian stagnation regime, through the demographic transition to modern growth. The production structure in this paper allows to explain the so-called Environmental Kurznet Curve theoretically. […]

I set up in this paper an overlapping generations economy with envi-ronment degrading itself and pollution resulting from both consumption and production to show that there always exists an inter-temporal equi-librium and to determine the competitive steady state. This steady state is compared with the equilibrium steady state in the social benevolent planner’s point of […]