Rousseau, Peter L.; Sylla, Richard - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2000
Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many … financing to businesses and governments as new technologies emerged, was central to the nation's early growth and modernization … hypothesis of "finance-led" growth in the U.S. case. By implication, the interest today in improving financial systems as a means …