Cover -- Contents -- 1. Services: problem or solution? -- I: The spectre of unemployment -- II: Industrial crisis and the development of the service economy -- III: The United States: an example of a tertiary economy -- IV: Service and services -- V: Measuring the volume of services -- VI: Services in the crisis: a macroeconomic perspective -- 2. Growth and the division of labour by sector -- I: Theories of the stages of growth: the problems of transitional phases -- II: The division of labour and the role of manufacturing industry as a leading sector -- III: The forms of the division of labour and productive systems -- IV: Relaxing the constraints on growth -- 3. Stagnation and de-industrialization: the developed countries -- I: Clear signs of a slowing down of industrial growth -- II: Two general approaches to an explanation of deindustrialization -- III: The balance of payments and the balance of trade in manufactures -- IV: The fall in productivity and changes in the conditions of production -- V: Declining and expanding sectors -- VI: Renaissance or decline of industrial policies? -- 4. The demand for services: the extension of foreign markets -- I: The expansion of trade in services: from the visible to the invisible -- II: Market shares and the orientation of trade -- III: The liberalization of trade in services and comparative advantages -- IV: Towards balanced development of trade in services -- 5. The domestic demand for services -- I: The different uses of services -- II: Services to firms and changes in the productive system -- III: Final domestic demand for services -- 6. Developments in the production of services -- I: The determinants of employment in the tertiary sector -- II: Information technology and the future of the service sector -- III: The advent of the information economy?.
