Economic growth of nations : total output and production structure /
In the seven chapters presented here noted economist and Nobel Prize–winner Simon Kuznets summarizes the results of his studies of the economic growth of nations in modern times. Working over the last twenty years, he has concerned himself largely with national product and its components—with long-t...
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Cambridge, Mass :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1971
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Table of Contents:
- I. Level and Variability of Rates of Growth Average Rates of Growth: Summary of Evidence Selected Aspects of Aggregate Growth Rates International implications of differences in growth rates Long-term trends in growth rates Long swings in growth rates II. Growth of Productivity and Nonconventional Costs Growth of Productivity Labor input Capital input Combined inputs and residual productivity Nonconventional Costs: Current and Capital III. Sectoral Shares in Product: A Cross-Section View Association between Product per Capita and Sectoral Shares Effect of Size Comments on the Cross-Section Association IV. Sectoral Shares in Product: Long-Term Trends Changes in Shares: The Three Major Sectors Changes in Shares: Subdivisions of the I and S Sectors Time Trends and Cross-Sections: General Comments Comparisons of Long-Term Changes with Cross-Section Differentials V. Sectoral Shares in Labor Force: A Cross-Section View Association between Product per Capita and Sectoral Shares Sectoral Product per Worker Adjustments for Coverage of Labor Force Data Adjustment for scope Problems of classification Intersectoral Inequality in Product per Worker VI. Sectoral Shares in Labor Force: Long-Term Trends Changes in Shares: The Three Major Sectors Changes in Shares: Subdivisions of the I and S Sectors Time Trends and Cross-Sections Changes in Sectoral Product per Worker VII. Summary and Interrelations A Summary of Findings Relation between Aggregate Growth and Production Structure: An Additional Illustration Relation between Aggregate Growth and Shifts in Production Structure: General Comments High and Low Growth Components and Limits to Aggregate Growth Structural Changes: Economic and Noneconomic The Sequences of Structural Change and Growth