Paul Romer's Stanford Web Page: Selected Publications

Selected Articles on Economic Growth by Paul Romer:

Nontechnical Overview:

1. "Economic Growth," The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, David R. Henderson, ed. Liberty Fund (Forthcoming 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.