Optimal Economic Growth and Non-Stable Population

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Growth theory and demographic change.- 1.2 Optimal economic growth.- 1.3 Population dynamics and economic development.- 1.4 Research goals and outline of the book.- 2 Optimal economic growth in the simple one-sector growth model.- 2.1 The simple one-sector growth model.- 2.2 The Non-Stationary Golden Rule.- 2.3 Comparative statics and the Golden Rule.- 2.4 Optimal population growth.- 2.5 The non-stationary optimal growth path.- 2.6 Summary.- 3 Technical change and economic growth.- 3.1 On the concept of technical change.- 3.2 Classifications of technical change.- 3.3 Technical change in one-sector growth models.- 4 Optimal economic growth under conditions of technical change.- 4.1 A model with exogenous disembodied technical change.- 4.2 A model with exogenous embodied technical change Contents.- 4.3 A model with endogenous technical change.- Appendix to Chapter 4.3.- 5 Education and economic growth.- 5.1 Economics and education.- 5.2 Education as a production process.- 5.3 Selection of models.- 6 Optimal economic growth and investment in education.- 6.1 A model with homogeneous human capital.- 6.2 A model with heterogeneous human capital.- 7 Optimal educational policy under conditions of technical change.- 7.1 Education and exogenous disembodied technical change.- 7.2 A model with education as transmitter of technical change.- 8 Simulations for the Netherlands.- 8.1 Demographic data.- 8.2 Simulation for the model with homogeneous human capital.- 8.3 Simulations for the model with heterogeneous human capital.- 9 Summary and evaluation.- 9.1 Summary.- 9.2 Evaluation.- References.- Author index.