Here's a paper I'm presenting at a Mathematica symposium at Trinity College, Dublin on September 15. The notes are 43 pages long, and cover aspects of modern growth theory, the mathematical tools behind some canonical models, and show how to implement these growth models in Mathematica.

The paper covers Solow, Romer, Mankiw-Romer-Weil, as well as Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans growth models. They also contain pedagogical notes on linear and dynamic programming, differential equations, and numerical analysis.

Right click the link below to download the paper. The Source file which produced the paper is quite large (18mb), so if you'd like a copy, please email me.

growththeorymacronotes_v3_reduced

Really, these notes represent a fairly good attempt at writing in the old Mathematica style. The new Mathematica style is built around usable pedagogical instruments called Demonstrations, which show the user the idea you're trying to convey graphically and numerically, while the user never sees a line of Mathematica code. So far I've not learned how to build demonstrations, but I will over the next term for my two classes.

The next steps in enlarging the notes is to connect the growth models to real world data series like the Penn World Tables, and econometrics. From there one can use Mathematica for sensible policy exercises in growth and development economics.

I'm looking forward to the symposium, and hope to learn a lot from the other presenters.