Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- The setting of the problem -- Patent statistics -- The role of intellectual stimuli -- The use of important inventions as a cause of further inventions -- Productivity advance: A Case of supply and demand? -- The amount of invention is governed by the extent...

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Lecture I. WORLD ECONOMIC STRUCTURE: DIVERSITY AND INTERDEPENDENCE -- Lecture II. CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH -- Lecture III. THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II -- Lecture IV. POSTWAR ECONOMIC GROWTH: FINDINGS AND QUESTIONS -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- I. Level and Variability of Rates of Growth -- II. Growth of Productivity and Nonconventional Costs -- III. Sectoral Shares in Product: A Cross-Section View -- IV. Sectoral Shares in Product: Long-Term Trends -- V. Sectoral Shares in Labor Force: A...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE / Η. H., G. -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- PART ONE: THE ITALIAN MIRACLE -- CHAPTER I. THE POSTWAR ECONOMY OF ITALY IN PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER II. INFLATION AND MONETARY POLICY, 1945-1949 -- CHAPTER III. THE LONG BOOM, 1948-1961: OUTPUT, PRICES, AND INCOME -- CHAPTER IV. THE...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. AN OUTLINE OF FRENCH AND BRITISH ECONOMIC GROWTH SINCE 1851 -- CHAPTER 2. RESOURCES -- CHAPTER 3. CAPITAL -- CHAPTER 4. POPULATION -- CHAPTER 5. SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH -- CHAPTER 6. ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- CHAPTER 7....

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. The Lewis Model of Growth with Unlimited Supplies of Labor -- CHAPTER II. Fast-Growing Developed Economies with Expanding Labor Supply: Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands -- CHAPTER III....

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- TABLES IN NOTES -- Diagrams -- Illustrations -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. Arc Lighting -- I. The Setting -- II. The Rise of Leading Firms -- III. Interfirm Relations -- IV. The Arc-Carbon Industry -- V. The Dynamics of the Industry --...

Frontmatter -- Foreword / Mason, Edward S. -- Contents -- Charts -- Tables -- I Economic Evolution -- 2. Current Locational Pulls on Manufacturing -- 3. Trends in Manufacturing: the Impact of 4 "Mix" -- 4. Trends in Manufacturing: the Impact of Competition -- 5. America's Business Headquarters...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHARTS -- SECTION I. THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE HAWAIIANS IN 1778 -- CHAPTER I. THE ISLANDS AND THEIR PEOPLE -- CHAPTER II. LAND DIVISIONS, LAND TENURE, AND TAXES -- CHAPTER III. THE ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION -- SECTION II. THE DECAY OF FEUDALISM, 1778-1844...

Many socio-economic systems require positive economic growth rates to function properly. Given uncertainty about future growth rates and increasing evidence that economic growth is a driver of social and environmental crises, these growth dependencies pose serious societal challenges. In recent...