Chapter 3 The Neoclassical Growth Model

3.1 The Social Planner • In this section, we start the analysis of the neoclassical growth model by considering the optimal plan of a benevolent social planner, who chooses the static and intertemporal allocation of resources in the economy so as to maximize social welfare. We will later show that the allocations that prevail in

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