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Economic growth and development

Economic growth and development
156-0479/01
čeština

Course aims

- understanding of models of economic growth (Solow model, new theory of growth)
- understanding of the differences between proximite and fundamental factors of economic growth in the countries
- the ability to explain the causes of differences in the economic level of the countries, both in terms of historical development and current problems
- ability to describe and explain the impact of geographical, cultural and institutional factors of economic growth

Literature

ACEMOGLU, D. Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-691-13292-1.
CAMERON, R. and Larry NEAL. A Concise Economic History of the World. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780199989768 .
VAN DEN BERG, H. Economic Growth and Development. London: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2017. 978-981-4733-33-5.

Advised literature

BAUMOL, W. J., LITAN, R. E. and Carl J. SCHRAMM. Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-300-10941-2 .
RODRIK, D. One Economics, Many Recipes. Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN: 13 978-0-691-12951-8.
WEIL, D. N. Economic Growth. 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2013. ISBN: 9780273775348 .


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Language of instruction čeština
Code 156-0479
Abbreviation ERR
Course title Economic growth and development
Coordinating department Department of Applied Economics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Mariola Pytliková, Ph.D.