Theoretical Approaches to Economic Growth and Development

1. The Methodological Puzzle.- 2. Introduction to General and Integrated Development and Growth.- 3. Economic Action, Cultural Background and Institutions.- 4. Complex Economic Systems, Information and Forms of Capitalism.- 5. Politics and Governance.- 6. Uncertainty.- 7. Expectations.- 8. Entrepreneurship.- 9. Evolution of Economy and Economic Thought.- 10. The Sources of Growth from the Birth of Economics to the Rise of the New Era.- 11. The Sources of Growth from the Beginning of Economics to the Emergence of the New Era: Equilibrium, Evolutionary Development, Schumpeter and Keynes.- 12. Neoclassical Synthesis and Keynesian Development.- 13. Solowian Growth and AK Models.- 14. International Trade Relations, Optimum Currency Areas, Externalities and Public Choice.- 15. The Era of Low Growth and High Inflation: Contemporary International Trade Theories, New Classics, New Keynesian, Human Capital, Contractization Theories, and Behavioral Economics Under Uncertainty.- 16. The GreatModeration, Real Business Cycles and Dynamic General Equilibrium Models.- 17. Endogenous Growth, Convergence and Evolutionism.- 18. The Macroeconomic and Development Debate after the Great Recession: The European Crisis, Deleveraging and Secular Stagnation.- 19. The Macroeconomic and Development Debate after the Great Recession: Fiscal Space, Multipliers and GDP, Debt Supercycle and Supply-Side Economics.- 20. Growth and Development Implications of Covid-19.- 21. International Financial Architecture.- 22. Central Banks, Reserve Currencies, International Chains, and International Interactions.