Productivity and American leadership : the long view

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Productivity and American leadership : the long view

William J. Baumol, Sue Anne Batey Blackman and Edward N. Wolff

MIT Press, 1991, c1989

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-380) and index

"First MIT Press paperback edition, 1991"--t.p. verso

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内容説明

Productivity and American Leadership examines and analyzes the long-run productivity performance of the United States, comparing it with that of the other industrialized nations. It shows that the U.S. record, both recent and over longer periods, is far better than is widely believed.

目次

  • Why the long run?
  • why productivity matters - and why it does not
  • a century of productivity improvement - revolution in American living standards
  • long-run growth in U.S. productivity - is there a slowdown?
  • international convergence - the comparative U.S. productivity lag
  • the service-economy prognosis - cost-disease illustions
  • is the United States becoming an information economy?
  • savings, investment and productivity growth
  • education and the "Convergence Club" - lessons for less developed countries
  • depletion of natural resources - must economic growth mortgage the future?
  • productivity yardsticks - alternative measures and their appropriate uses
  • toward policy for the longer term.

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