Chad Jones
Charles I. Jones
(Chad)
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The
6th edition -- 2024
The
4th edition
with
Dietz
Vollrath
slides
).
Recent Papers
Past Automation and Future A.I.: How Weak Links Tame the Growth Explosion
" (with Chris Tonetti), March 2026, Version 0.4
slides
A.I. and Our Economic Future
" January 2026, Version 1.0 in preparation for the
Journal of Economic Perspectives
slides
When GDP Misleads: Inferring Living Standards from the Value of a Statistical Life
(with Phil Trammell), February 2026, Version 0.2 (
slides
How Much Should We Spend to Reduce A.I.'s Existential Risk?
" September 2025, Version 2.0
slides
GSB Insights
Population and Welfare: Measuring Growth when Life is Worth Living
(with Adhami, Bils, and Klenow),
November 2025, conditionally accepted at
AEJ: Macro
slides
video
Race and Economic Well-Being in the United
States
" (with Brouillette and Klenow),
AER: Insights
, December 2025 (
slides
The A.I. Dilemma: Growth versus Existential Risk
AER: Insights
, December 2024 (
slides
video
Recipes and Economic Growth:
A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail
Journal of Political Economy
, August 2023
slides
video
).
The Past and Future of Economic Growth: A Semi-Endogenous Perspective
Annual Review of Economics
, August 2022
slides
video
The End of Economic Growth? Unintended
Consequences of a Declining Population
American Economic Review
, November 2022
slides
video
Taxing Top Incomes in a World of
Ideas
Journal of Political Economy
, September 2022
slides
Nonrivalry and the Economics of
Data
" (with Chris Tonetti),
American Economic Review
, September 2020
slides
Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
(with Bloom, Van Reenen, and Webb),
American Economic Review
April 2020 (
slides
The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic
Growth
" (with Hsieh, Hurst, and Klenow),
Econometrica
September 2019 (
brief video
Paul Romer: Ideas, Nonrivalry, and
Endogenous Growth
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
July 2019
Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth
" (with
Aghion and B. Jones), in Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb,
The Economics of
Artificial Intelligence
, 2019 (
slides
A Schumpeterian Model of Top Income
Inequality
" (with Jihee Kim),
Journal of Political
Economy
, October 2018
slides
Winner of
the 2021
Robert
E. Lucas Jr. Prize
from the JPE.
The Facts of Economic Growth
Handbook of Macroeconomics
, 2016.
Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and
Time
" (with Pete Klenow)
American Economic Review
September 2016.
Life and
Growth
Journal of Political Economy
, April 2016.
Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top
Income and Wealth Inequality
Journal of Economic
Perspectives
, Winter 2015.
The Future of U.S. Economic Growth
(with John Fernald),
American Economic Review Papers
and Proceedings
, May 2014.
Misallocation, Economic Growth, and
Input-Output Economics
" in
Advances in Economics and Econometrics
, Tenth World
Congress, Volume II, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Intermediate Goods and Weak Links in the Theory of Economic
Development
American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics
, April 2011 (
Slides
).
The Value of Life and the Rise in Health
Spending
" (with Bob Hall),
Quarterly Journal
of Economics
, February 2007.
Lectures
09/03/25: Overview of my research on "
A.I. and Economic Growth
" (videos:
w/ equations
w/o equations
06/02/25: Torino Festival of Economics public lecture on
"Optimal Population: An Empty Planet or 100 Billion People?"
01/04/25: AEA session on
"Bob Solow and the Theory of Economic Growth"
07/19/22: Latest basic
semi-endogenous growth slides
11/29/21: Econ 1 Lecture on "
Economic Growth and Development
02/26/21: Robert Morris University Teaching Conference,
Rich vs Poor Countries and COVID
10/15/18: Simpson Lecture at Princeton:
The Future of Economic Growth
10/12/18:
New
ideas about new ideas: Paul Romer, Nobel laureate
" for VoxEU.org
10/16/15: "
Growth and Ideas
": Teaching
slides on my favorite topic. See also
On the 25th Anniversary of
Romer (1990)
What Else is New?
01/02/26: ChatGPT 5.2 Pro provides
elegant proof of explosive growth result
in
Aghion, Jones, and Jones (2019)
09/06/22: LaTeX files for MBA macro course (see Teaching below)
07/09/21: Generous
write-up
of my research
by Leopold Aschenbrenner
01/26/21:
Country
Snapshots 10.0
: Lots of data on every country in the world in a nice,
graphical format (updated to Penn World Tables 10.0)
05/28/20: Twitter --
@ChadJonesEcon
07/01/19: My
Suggestions to
Referees
at
Econometrica
12/08/11:
Google
Scholar page
03/29/11:
Useful matlab functions
especially for making graphs
06/10/08: My
latex style
. Especially nice
on a computer screen or color printer; hyperlinks throughout.
Teaching
MgtEcon 300: Stanford MBA
Macroeconomics, Spring 2024:
Syllabus (old)
Slides
LaTeX Files
Figures (.eps)
MgtEcon 610, Autumn 2025:
Topics in
Macroeconomics
(PhD Course on Economic Growth)
-- Slides:
Growth and Ideas
Romer1990Jones2005
Kortum (1997)
DirectionTechChange
The Very Long Run
BenJones_Liu2024
Useful Links
Country
Snapshots
Lots of data in nice graphs.
Useful matlab functions
especially for making graphs
mondrian.m
and
.png
My computer tips
My research tagxedo
Bob Hall
(more
here
How I
Work
Linux (
Ubuntu
),
VS Code
LaTeX
Matlab
Chrome
Gmail
PDFExpert
GitHub Desktop
My Latest Not-a-Blog
Listings (
complete list
):
Things I've read and enjoyed...
Seems like it applies to economics as well:
"Physicists spend a large part of their lives in a state of confusion.
It's an occupational hazard. To excel in physics is to embrace doubt
while walking the winding road to clarity. The tantalizing discomfort
of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to
extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses
the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution. But en
route to explanation -- during their search for new frameworks to
address outstanding questions -- theorists must tread with considered
step through the jungle of bewilderment, guided mostly by hunches,
inklings, clues, and calculations. And as the majority of researchers
have a tendency to cover their tracks, discoveries often bear little
evidence of the arduous terrain that's been covered. But don't lose
sight of the fact that nothing comes easily. Nature does not give up
her secrets lightly." -- Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Chapter 16.
A fact is worth a thousand theories... (?)
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Contact Information:
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305-4800
Phone: (650) 725-9265,
Fax: (650) 724-7402
Twitter:
@ChadJonesEcon
E-mail:
chad.jones@stanford.edu
Web:
directions to my office