Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth

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 factor be...

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Other Authors: van Ark, Bart (Editor), Kuipers, Simon K. (Editor), Kuper, Gerard H. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • I Understanding Growth Regimes
  • 2. Interpreting the “One Big Wave” in U.S. Long-term Productivity Growth
  • 3. Surveying Two Centuries of Dutch Growth, 1807–1995: (Dis)equilibrium Growth Regimes in International Perspective
  • 4. Institutions and Economic Growth in Postwar Europe: Evidence and Conjectures
  • II Determinants of Productivity
  • 5. The Interaction between Business Cycles and Productivity Growth: Evidence from US Industrial Data
  • 6. Productivity, Income and Technological Change in the Netherlands: Causes and Explanations of Divergent Trends
  • 7. Labour Productivity Growth in Dutch Business Services
  • 8. Productivity and Specificity in Factor Inputs
  • III Technology Diffusion and Growth
  • 9. Knowledge, Technology, and Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution
  • 10. Human Capital, R&D, Productivity Growth and Assimilation of Technologies in the Netherlands
  • 11. The Effect of Pharmaceutical Utilisation and Innovation on Hospitalisation and Mortality
  • 12. Productivity, R&D Spillovers and Trade
  • 13. Do Technology Spillovers Matter for Growth?
  • Author Index