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Life and Growth | NBER Skip to main content Life and Growth Charles I. Jones Share X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 17094 DOI 10.3386/w17094 Issue Date May 2011 Some technologies save lives -- new vaccines, new surgical techniques, safer highways. Others threaten lives -- pollution, nuclear accidents, global warming, the rapid global transmission of disease, and bioengineered viruses. How is growth theory altered when technologies involve life and death instead of just higher consumption? This paper shows that taking life into account has first-order consequences. U
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