...Extends and evaluates the application of optimal growth programming to address contemporary issues of growth economics with national , global, environmental, and ecological growth models. Surveys computational methods for optimal growth models. Journal of Economic Literature ...By providing the justifications for considering optimal growth economics as a separate discipline, integrating the theoretical, computational and applied modeling issues and methods in a single volume, by extending the literature in this area to incorporate recent developments in different branches in economics, including sustainable development, by integrating further welfare economics, social choice and optimal growth, this book has made a substantial contribution to the literature and filled an obvious gap. Journal of Development Studies, 2004 ...The author argues convincingly that as a distinct discipline, optimal growth economics is able to utilise the techniques of mathematical modelling and computing to address a wide range of issues. Journal of Development Studies, 2004 ...By providing the justifications for considering optimal growth economics as a separate discipline, integrating the theoretical, computational and applied modelling issues and methods in a single volume; by extending the literature in this area to incorporate recent developments in different branches in economics, including sustainable development, and by integrating further welfare economic, social choice and optimal growth, this book has made a substantial contribution to the literature and filled an obvious gap. Journal of Development Studies