Supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) 17539924
Abstract
What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more? What drives technological progress and economic growth in the long run and on a global scale? And how will technological progress, economic growth, and the overall prosperity of human civilisation unfold in the future?
In this talk, the author will present his book which sheds new light on these big questions by incorporating findings from physics, anthropology, psychology, history, philosophy, and computer science in a brand-new theory of economic growth. Looking back across the millennia, it identifies five major technological revolutions which have transformed humankind’s capacity to process energy and information—the cognitive, agricultural, scientific, industrial, and digital revolutions—and characterises the new avenues of economic development which they have opened while also exponentially accelerating growth.
About Jakub Growiec
Jakub Growiec isFull Professor and Head of Department of Quantitative Economics at SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. He holds a PhD (2007) from Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His research interests include economic growth theory, production functions, human and social capital. He has received prizes for his outstanding scientific achievements, including the National Science Centre (NCN) award and the scientific award from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He has published his research in international journals such as (among others) Journal of the European Economic Association, Social Networks, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Mathematical Economics. His book “Accelerating Economic Growth: Lessons From 200,000 Years of Technological Progress and Human Development” has been published with Springer in 2022.
Register HERE for the seminar – as of April 17, 2023