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Twentieth Century Growth
Crafts, Nicholas; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper surveys the experience of economic growth in the 20th century with a focus on technological change at the frontier together with issues related to success and failure in catch-up growth. A detailed account of growth performance based on historical national accounts data is given and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084318
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British Economic Growth Since 1945: Relative Economic Decline .... and Renaissance?
Bean, Charles R; Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
The paper contains a thorough review of explanations for the weak British growth performance of the 1950s through the 1970s and an assessment of the long-term implications of the 1980s attempt to escape from relative decline. The analysis draws on recent work in growth theory and places...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792362
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British Relative Economic Decline Revisited
Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper examines the role of competition in productivity perfromance in Britain over the period from the late … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in … ending relative economic decline. The productivity implications of the retreat from competition resulted in large part from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024927
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The Implications of British Macroeconomic Policy in the 1930s for Long Run Growth Performance
Broadberry, Stephen N; Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
unemployment this made sense. A bargaining model approach suggests, however, that this had a harmful impact on productivity growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667002
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British Economic Growth Before and After 1979: A Review of the Evidence
Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
leading to poor productivity performance are the most plausible explanation of Britain's relative decline. It is argued both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791602