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September 29, 2009

Endogenous Technological Progress

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September 24, 2009

Convergence and the Data

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September 22, 2009

Intellectual Property Rights

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September 17, 2009

Human Capital

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September 15, 2009

Cash for Clunkers

Last Fall, we paused to discuss bank failures. This year, we devoted a session to "Cash for Clunkers."

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September 10, 2009

Growth Accounting

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September 08, 2009

Technological Change

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September 03, 2009

The Solow Model

Cobb-Douglas with Constant Return to Scale

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Labor Grows Exponentially

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Two Equations

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Convergence to the Steady State

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The Steady State

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More Math

The Chain Rule

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Rates of Change

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September 01, 2009

Math

Derivatives

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Exponents

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Examples

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The Exponential Function

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Logarithms

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The Benefits of Log Scales

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