Dynamic Economic Theory of Heterogenous Households

Zhang Wei-Bin, Ph.D. (Umeå, Sweden), has been a Professor at APU since 2000. He graduated in 1982 from Beijing University. He got a master’s degree and completed the Ph.D. course at the Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University, in September 1987. He completed his dissertation on economic growth theory in Sweden by April 1989. Since then, he researched at the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm for 10 years. His main research fields are complexity theory in economics (nonlinear economic dynamics, chaos theory, synergetic economics), ancient Chinese thought, American civilization, and the economic development and modernization of Chinese societies and Japan. He single-authorized 490 academic articles (240 in international peer-reviewed journals), 33 academic books in English by well-known international academic publishing houses.

• Preface and Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1  Economic Development with Heterogeneous Households.- Chapter 2 Growth and Structure with Income and Wealth Distribution.- Chapter 3 Growth and Distribution with Endogenous Leisure Time.- Chapter 4 Income and Wealth Distribution with Endogenous Wealth and Human Capital.- Chapter 5 Growth Trade and Knowledge with National Research.- Chapter 6  Group Based Human Capital Externalities and Inequality.- Chapter 7 How Do the Richest 1 Own 50 of Wealth.- Chapter 8  Discrimination Growth and Inequality.- Chapter 9  Growth and Gender with Time Distribution.- Chapter 10  An Economic Growth Model with Endogenous Birth and Mortality Rates.- Chapter 11  Economic Growth with Social Status and Inequality.- Chapter 12  Income and Wealth Distribution in a Monetary Growth Model.- Chapter 13  Global Trade and Business Cycles with Endogenous Human Capital.- Chapter 14 Growth and Inequality in an Economy with Perfect and Monopolistic Competition.- Chapter 15  Further Issues.- References.