Selected Articles on Economic Growth by Paul Romer:

Nontechnical Overview:
1. "Economic Growth," The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, David R. Henderson, ed. Liberty Fund 2007. PDF available here.
2. "Post-Scarcity Prophet." (An interview published in Reason Magazine.) Available here.

Journal Articles:
1. "Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 94, No. 5 (Oct. 1986), pp. 1002-1037. Available on Jstor.
My first attempt at modeling growth, derived from my Ph.D. thesis.

2. "Endogenous Technological Change," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 5, "Part 2: The Problem of Development: A Conference on the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Systems." (Oct. 1990), pp. S71-102. Available on Jstor.
My second model of growth. If you want to read just one article by me on the theory of growth, read this one.

3. "New Goods, Old Theory, and the Welfare Costs of Trade Restrictions," Journal of Development Economics, No. 43 (1994), pp. 5-38. Available on Science Direct.
An exploration of the effects that new goods have on welfare economics. The specific application is to the effects of trade restrictions, but the broader question concerns the difficulty we have in leaving behind the comfortable vision of a world in which all change comes from increased quantities of existing goods.
4. "The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital." (Joint with Charles Jones.) NBER Working paper #15094. Forthcoming American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2010.
A look back on what we have learned about economic growth and a look ahead on the challenges that the theory of growth should address.

5. "Preferences, Promises, and the Politics of Entitlement." Chapter 7 from  Individual and Social Responsibility, Victor R. Fuchs ed. (1996.)
The precursor to my current work on politics and the dynamics of rules. See www.chartercities.org for more detail on this new project.
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