University Professor at Boston College, directing the Center for the Economics of Ideas. Known for endogenous growth theory; co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in economics.
This 1990 Journal of Political Economy paper by Paul Romer models long-run growth as driven by technological change that arises from intentional research investment by profit-maximizing firms, …
This 1986 Journal of Political Economy paper by Paul Romer builds a fully specified competitive-equilibrium model of long-run growth in which knowledge is an input to production with increasing …