Introduction to Modern Economic Growth

Book was as advertised and speedy delivery!

This book is simply the best book available on Growth nowadays. In my Macroeconomics class we use both Acemoglu and Sargent's book Recursive Macroeconomic Theory. Sargent's is much simpler in exposition, skipping some important mathematical proofs and not going as deep as Acemoglu does in most of the fundamental techniques. Every time I need to understand the mathematics of Dynamic Programming (be it in discrete time, continuous time, finite of infinite horison, deterministic or stochastic), Acemoglu's is the book I look at.

I love this book, it contains all modern economic growth models, but it also has the basic ones that gave birth to this new branch of models. A former student of D.Acemoglu taught me a Macro course based on this book and it was amazing. I also recommend it for self study because explanations are very clear. Math requeriments are standard, but it also has some appendixes where he explains all math needed to understand advanced economics.

The book is great and clear. The major problem is almost all of the numbered equations are two small to be readable. The only way to read the equation is to cut and paste then enlarge.

This book, by one of the most respected contributors to macro, is a one stop shop for economic growth. It is a great book for understanding the fundamentals of macro theory as well as the progression of the theoretical and empirical work in every sub field of growth. It is a must for all graduate students, and I am sure it will be great addition to any researchers collection.

This is a fantastic book for both research and teaching. It is easy to read, well written and cover the essential of modern macroeconomics.

Probably the best introduction (if the the book can be called introduction given the level of the technicality!) into growth. Still unmatched.

The textbook is a bit wordy

Echo de menos ejercicios resueltos--o al menos con las respuestas-- a lo largo del texto. Estos son un importante complemento de las exposiciones teóricas.

評判がいいので購入してみてPart2のみだいたい読みましたが神書ですｗ Part'2は代表的個人からなる動学的一般均衡モデルの基本設定と 離散、連続の非確率的なダイナミックプログラミングを 変分法、最適制御を交えて解説してあります。 まあLucasの前半を簡略化して連続時間をくっつけた感じです。 数学的な予備知識としては邦書の浦井憲か岡田章の経済数学を 講義などでかじったことがあり、そこに書いてある微積分、 微分方程式、位相、凸解析の知識をなんとなく把握していて、 追加で多価写像がなんなのかくらい知っていれば読めると思います。 マクロ経済学の上級の教科書というのはローマーにせよサージェントのrecusiveにせよ、 モデルの根本的な、ある種暗黙の前提や、数学的な処理などで、 「当然お前ら俺らの言ってることわかるだろ？」 というくらいにたいした説明もなく話が進んでいって、 要は著者の言ってることを信じて慣れるしかないという イラっとくる仕様になっているものですが、 この本はくどいくらいに丁寧に説明してくれますｗ 一般均衡動学に基づくマクロ経済学、経済成長論を 真面目に学びたい人は必携だと思います。

Good item....

A must have for Economists. Even if they are not interested in economic growth, the books offer readers a very good introduction to mathematical techniques needed for research in economic theory

Excelent