... that defines the saving ratio in the economy. However, the road connecting Solow to the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model is not so straightforward. We argue that in order to understand Koopmans’s contribution, we have to go to the activity analysis literature that started before Solow 1956 and never had him...

... discounting utilities of future generations, to which Frank Ramsey subscribed, postwar neoclassical growth economists (of the “Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model”) applied the discount factor either to the individual's or the social planner's decision making as a technical requirement of dynamic general equilibrium...

.... Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Frank Ramsey Economic Growth Models Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans Model This article is partly based on my PhD dissertation (Duarte 2007a, chap. 4). I am very grateful to participants at the 2008 HOPE and 2008 HISRECO conferences for comments...

... that Ramsey’s 1928 article was read and appreciated by a signifi cant number of economists even before the 1950s, but that it was only after the neoclassical synthesis that dynamic welfare economics and, therefore, Ramsey’s approach (as rediscovered and transformed by Cass and Koopmans) were fully...

... Ramsey problem of optimal saving over time. In this lecture we covered essentially everything that is contained in the famous David Cass paper that was not published until July 1965! At Stanford, Uzawa and his students David Cass and Karl Shell quickly incorporated Pontryagin’s methods...

..., 310 Cartwright, Dorwin P., 88, 88n12 Cootner, Paul, 34 Cass, David, 213 Corry, Leo, 4n1 Cassel, Gustav, 232n9 Costa, Dora, 343, 344, 345, 346, 348 Center for International Studies Council of Economic Advisers, 246 (CIS), 17, 21–22...

... Statistical Association 23 (supplement): 73 -78. ____. 1933 . Propagation Problems and Impulse Problems in Dynamic Economics. In Economic Essays in Honour of Gustav Cassel , edited by Karen Koch, 171 -205. London: Frank Cass. ____. 1934 . Circulation Planning: Proposal for a National Organization...