Economic Impossibilities for our Grandchildren?

Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

The paper looks at the development of the secular stagnation thesis, in the context of the economic history of the time. It explores some 19th century antecedents of the thesis, before turning to its interwar development. Not only Alvin Hansen, but Keynes and Hicks were involved in the conversations that led to Hansen's eventual statement of the thesis that we are familiar with. The argument made sense in the context of the interwar period, but more so in Britain than the US

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Year of publication:	December 2015
Authors:	O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Wirtschaftsprognose \| Economic forecast \| Theorie \| Theory \| Wirtschaftsgeschichte \| Economic history \| Welt \| World

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w21807
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers.
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w21807 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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