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Recent Papers
"The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and
Human Capital" (with Paul Romer) June 17, 2009.
"The Costs of Economic Growth" June 2008,
Version 0.4.
Preliminary. If you only read papers once, you might wait.
(More info on the latex style file used to format this paper.)
"Intermediate Goods and Weak Links: A Theory of Economic
Development" January 2009, Version 3.0.
Improved model of substitution and complementarity;
a competitive equilibrium with micro-level distortions. More evidence.
"Input-Output Multipliers, General Purpose
Technologies, and Economic Development" September 24, 2007, Version 0.26.
Very preliminary and incomplete. If you only read papers once, do not read this version.
"A New Proof of Uzawa's Steady-State Growth
Theorem" (with Dean Scrimgeour, Review of Economics and
Statistics, February 2008).
"The Value of Life and the Rise in Health
Spending" (with Bob Hall, Quarterly Journal
of Economics, February 2007).
What Else is New?
03/02/09: "The Global Financial Crisis
of 2007-20??": A discussion of current macroeconomic events,
suitable for teaching MBAs and undergraduates.
02/21/09: Stanford MBA
Macroeconomics, Fall 2008: Syllabus
| Lectures+Problems (zip
file, 25MB)
02/02/09: Country
Snapshots 2.0: Lots of data
on every country in the world in a nice, graphical format.
06/10/08: My new latex style. Especially nice
on a computer screen or color printer; hyperlinks throughout.
01/24/08: Information on my now published intermediate macroeconomics textbook.
07/18/06: My research mailing list.
An email mailing list that announces new or revised
working papers.
Introduction to Economic Growth
The second edition of my
textbook on economic growth.
Here's the
Amazon page for the second edition.
The data in Table C.2 of the book can be downloaded from here. Some useful links on the web related to growth are here.
PDF files of the figures are here
(sorry, no tables). A solutions manual and powerpoint
slides can be obtained from WWNorton (professors only,
password from Norton is required).
Teaching/Advising
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How I
Work
Linux (Ubuntu),
Emacs,
LaTeX,
Matlab, Firefox, Gmail,
Xournal.
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Seems like it applies to economics as well:
"Physicists spend a large part of their lives in a state of confusion.
It's an occupational hazard. To excel in physics is to embrace doubt
while walking the winding road to clarity. The tantalizing discomfort
of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to
extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses
the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution. But en
route to explanation -- during their search for new frameworks to
address outstanding questions -- theorists must tread with considered
step through the jungle of bewilderment, guided mostly by hunches,
inklings, clues, and calculations. And as the majority of researchers
have a tendency to cover their tracks, discoveries often bear little
evidence of the arduous terrain that's been covered. But don't lose
sight of the fact that nothing comes easily. Nature does not give up
her secrets lightly." -- Brian Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos,
Chapter 16.
Contact Information:
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
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E-mail: chad.jones@stanford.edu
Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~chadj