**Below is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract.** Eichengreen attributes the Western European post-war output growth experience largely to national and international consensus on the side of unions and entrepreneurs about the importance of wage moderation. On the one hand,...

Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth presents a selection of recent research advances on long term economic growth. While the contributions stem from both economic history, macro- and microeconomics and the economics of innovation, all papers depart from a common viewpoint: the key...