| List of Tables and Figures | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xii |
| Growth and Distribution | p. 1 |
| The Walrasian economic system | p. 3 |
| The Solow growth model | p. 8 |
| The Ramsey growth model | p. 14 |
| A post-Keynesian model of growth and distribution | p. 21 |
| A representative consumer approach in the Ramsey theory | p. 23 |
| The overlapping-generations (OLG) model | p. 27 |
| Timescales, changeable speeds, and economic theory | p. 30 |
| The structure of the book | p. 33 |
| One-Sector Growth (OSG) Economies with Capital Accumulation | p. 37 |
| The one-sector growth model | p. 38 |
| The OSG model with the Cobb-Douglas functions | p. 47 |
| The OSG model in discrete time | p. 53 |
| Growth with endogenous leisure | p. 58 |
| Public goods and returns to scale | p. 66 |
| Home production in the OSG model | p. 71 |
| Environment and growth | p. 74 |
| The OSG model with population | p. 79 |
| Money and economic growth | p. 82 |
| A small open economy with capital accumulation | p. 89 |
| The model with general production and utility functions | p. 89 |
| The dynamics with the Cobb-Douglas functions | p. 93 |
| Autarky interest rates and the trade pattern | p. 96 |
| Theoretical foundations of the utility function | p. 99 |
| Relations with traditional approaches to consumer behavior | p. 102 |
| The Keynesian consumption function | p. 102 |
| The life cycle hypothesis | p. 105 |
| The permanent income hypothesis | p. 106 |
| The Solow model | p. 108 |
| The Ramsey growth model | p. 111 |
| Appendix | p. 112 |
| Economic dynamics with fertility and old age support | p. 112 |
| Growth with Human Capital and Knowledge | p. 119 |
| The AK-OSG model with learning by doing | p. 121 |
| Growth with capital accumulation and education | p. 124 |
| The OSG model with endogenous human capital | p. 125 |
| The dynamics and multiple equilibrium points | p. 128 |
| The path-dependent motion of the system by simulation | p. 132 |
| The impact of educational policy | p. 134 |
| The impact of the propensity to save | p. 138 |
| Growth with learning by doing and research | p. 140 |
| Development with monopolistic competition | p. 150 |
| Product variety and growth | p. 159 |
| Variety of consumer goods and growth | p. 165 |
| From Malthusian stagnation to demographic trends of advanced economies | p. 169 |
| Appendix | p. 172 |
| Proving Proposition 3.2.1 | p. 172 |
| Growth with Heterogeneous Households | p. 174 |
| The OSG model of two-type households | p. 177 |
| The OSG model of two-type households | p. 177 |
| Equilibrium and stability | p. 180 |
| Different levels of human capital | p. 184 |
| Preference differences | p. 185 |
| The OSG model with heterogeneous groups | p. 186 |
| Growth with knowledge and multiple groups | p. 191 |
| Persistence of inequality with poverty traps | p. 195 |
| A growth model with human capital and income distribution | p. 199 |
| On modeling group differences | p. 204 |
| Appendix | p. 206 |
| Proving Proposition 4.1.1 | p. 206 |
| Multi-Sector Growth Economies | p. 209 |
| The Uzawa two-sector model | p. 210 |
| A two-sector growth model with endogenous saving | p. 214 |
| The model | p. 214 |
| The motion of the economic system | p. 217 |
| The dynamics with the Cobb-Douglas production functions | p. 219 |
| Simulate the model | p. 222 |
| Comparative dynamic analysis by simulation | p. 224 |
| A two-sector growth model with labor supply and consumer durables | p. 226 |
| The model with endogenous leisure and consumer durables | p. 227 |
| The dynamics with the Cobb-Douglas production functions | p. 229 |
| Simulate the model | p. 233 |
| Knowledge accumulation and economic structure | p. 239 |
| Conclusions | p. 243 |
| Appendix | p. 243 |
| The dynamics with general production functions | p. 243 |
| Multiple Sectors and Heterogeneous Households | p. 248 |
| The two-sector two-group model | p. 249 |
| Dynamics with the Cobb-Douglas production functions | p. 252 |
| Simulating the model | p. 257 |
| Further discussions | p. 269 |
| Appendix | p. 271 |
| The two-sector multi-group model with general production functions | p. 271 |
| Multi-Region Growth Economies | p. 275 |
| Leisure, amenity, and capital accumulation | p. 278 |
| The model with time, amenity, and capital accumulation | p. 279 |
| Simulate the three-region economy | p. 286 |
| Parameter changes and regional economic structures | p. 292 |
| Regional economic structure with endogenous knowledge | p. 299 |
| The regional model with economic structure | p. 302 |
| The equilibrium structure and stability | p. 305 |
| The creativity and the regional economic structure | p. 309 |
| On regional dynamics with capital and knowledge | p. 313 |
| Appendices | p. 314 |
| Proving Lemma 7.1.1 | p. 314 |
| Proving Proposition 7.2.1 | p. 318 |
| Proving Proposition 7.2.2 | p. 321 |
| Multi-Country Growth Economies | p. 323 |
| The Ricardian trade theory | p. 324 |
| The neoclassical theory and the Heckscher-Ohlin theory | p. 327 |
| A two-country trade model with capital accumulation | p. 332 |
| The trade model | p. 335 |
| Behavior of the dynamic system | p. 337 |
| Some special cases | p. 340 |
| A multi-country trade model with heterogeneous households | p. 343 |
| The trade model with heterogeneous households | p. 344 |
| The world economic dynamics | p. 347 |
| The three-country two-group economy | p. 350 |
| Comparative dynamic analysis | p. 354 |
| International trade with capital and technology | p. 363 |
| The trade model with capital and knowledge accumulation | p. 366 |
| The dynamics of the trade system | p. 368 |
| The global economy in the autarky system | p. 372 |
| Comparing the autarky and trade systems | p. 373 |
| On trade and income and wealth distribution | p. 376 |
| Appendix | p. 380 |
| Equilibrium and stability conditions in the two-country economy | p. 380 |
| Endless Complexity | p. 383 |
| Notes | p. 389 |
| Bibliography | p. 403 |
| Index | p. 429 |
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