Mendola, Daria; Scuderi, Raffaele; Lacagnina, Valerio - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 5, pp. 2473-2494
This paper introduces the concept of harmonic growth as an extended acceptation of the notion of development, and discusses its measurement via the Harmonic Growth Index (HGI). The growth is seen as harmonic when the behaviour of a benchmark time series, which here is a measure of wealth, such...