Chapter 27 Websites

A website devoted to economic growth is maintained by Jonathan Temple of Oxford at www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Economics/Growth and contains many references and links. The articles by Solow and Baumol are available at www.jstor.org. One of the most entertaining web pages among economists is maintained by growth theorist Xavier Sala-i-Martin at www.columbia.edu/~xs23.

Data sets on economic growth can be found at www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Economics/Growth/datasets.htm. Technological change is often associated with particular inventions. The lives and patents of great inventors can be found at www.invent.org/book/index.html.

For those who wish to pursue the issue of productivity in the new economy, see The Economic Report of the President 2000 at w3.access.gpo.gov/eop, Chapter 2. Also see Robert J. Gordon, "Has the 'New Economy' Rendered the Productivity Explosion Obsolete?" June 1999, available at Gordon's home page www.econ.nwu.edu/faculty-frame.html. A convenient discussion is contained in The Economist, July 24-30, 1999, available at that magazine's archives at www.economist.com.