Coast to Coast: How MIT's students linked the Solow model and optimal growth theory
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Optimal growth; History of Economic Thought; David Cass; Robert Solow.;All these keywords.
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- B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
- B23 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Econometrics; Quantitative and Mathematical Studies
- B29 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Other
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- NEP-HIS-2017-11-26 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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