Editing Overlapping generations model (section)

== History ==
The construction of the OLG model was inspired by [[Irving Fisher]]'s monograph ''The Theory of Interest''.<ref name="ABB29">{{harvtxt|Aliprantis|Brown|Burkinshaw|1988|p=229}}:

{{cite book|title=Existence and optimality of competitive equilibria|last1=Aliprantis|first1=Charalambos&nbsp;D.|last2=Brown|first2=Donald&nbsp;J.|last3=Burkinshaw|first3=Owen|date=April 1988|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-3-540-52866-1|edition=1990 student|location=Berlin|pages=xii+284|chapter=5 The overlapping generations model (pp.&nbsp;229–271)|mr=1075992|author-link1=Charalambos D. Aliprantis}}</ref>  It was first formulated in 1947, in the context of a pure-exchange economy, by [[Maurice Allais]], and more rigorously by [[Paul Samuelson]] in 1958.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Samuelson|first=Paul A.|date=1958|title=An exact consumption-loan model of interest with or without the social contrivance of money|journal=Journal of Political Economy|volume=66|issue=6|pages=467–482|doi=10.1086/258100|s2cid=153586213 }}</ref> In 1965, [[Peter Diamond]]<ref name="Diamond65" /> incorporated an aggregate neoclassical production into the model. This OLG model with production was further augmented with the development of the two-sector OLG model by [[Oded Galor]],<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|last1=Galor|first1=Oded|author-link=Oded Galor|year=1992|title=A Two-Sector Overlapping-Generations Model: A Global Characterization of the Dynamical System|journal=[[Econometrica]]|volume=60|issue=6|pages=1351–1386|jstor=2951525|doi=10.2307/2951525}}</ref> and the introduction of OLG models with endogenous fertility.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last1=Galor|first1=Oded|last2=Weil|first2=David N.|date=1996|title=The gender gap, fertility, and growth|journal=American Economic Review|volume=86|issue=3|pages=374–387}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Galor|first1=Oded|last2=Weil|first2=David N.|date=2000|title=Population, technology, and growth: From Malthusian stagnation to the demographic transition and beyond|journal=American Economic Review|volume=90|issue=4|pages=806–828|doi=10.1257/aer.90.4.806|citeseerx=10.1.1.195.5342}}</ref>

Books devoted to the use of the OLG model include [[Costas Azariadis|Azariadis]]' Intertemporal Macroeconomics<ref>{{Cite web|title = Wiley: Intertemporal Macroeconomics - Costas Azariadis|url = http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1557863660.html|website = eu.wiley.com|access-date = 2015-10-24}}</ref> and [[David de la Croix|de la Croix]] and [[Philippe Michel (economist)|Michel]]'s Theory of Economic Growth.<ref>{{Cite web|title = A Theory of Economic Growth - 9780521001151 - Cambridge University Press|url = https://www.cambridge.org/asia/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521001151|website = www.cambridge.org|access-date = 2015-10-24}}</ref>