Economic growth and the balance-of-payments constraint

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Economic growth and the balance-of-payments constraint

J.S.L. McCombie and A.P. Thirlwall

Macmillan , St. Martin's Press, 1994

  • : us
  • : uk
  • : uk : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 574-595) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: us ISBN 9780312101831

Description

'... a well written book ... covering ... a vast amount of material ... well balanced between the theoretical and applied works. The authors are judicious and fair in providing a balanced treatment of the two alternative theories of growth performance: supply-oriented and demand-oriented. The book will serve as a guideline to researchers and policymakers ... as a textbook for upperdivision undergraduate and graduate courses.'- Kashi Nath Tiwari, Kennesaw State College This is the first book of its kind to argue in a consistent and comprehensive way the idea that a country's growth performance cannot be properly understood without reference to the performance of its tradeable goods sector and the strength of its balance of payments. It puts forward a demand orientated theory of why growth rates differ between countries where the major constraint on demand is the balance of payments. The book is critical of neoclassical growth analysis and provides an alternative theory of growth performance to the supply orientated approach of neoclassical theory. There are theoretical chapters comparing and contrasting neoclassical growth analysis with the new demand orientated approach, and empirical sections which apply the new model to regions and countries, including two case studies of the UK and Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Alternative Theories of Growth Performance:I The Supply Orientated and Neoclassical Approaches - Alternative Theories of Growth Performance:II The Demand Orientated Approach - The Balance of Payments Constraint as an Explanation of International Growth Rate Differences - Non-Price Competition, Trade and the Balance of Payments - Critiques and Defences of the Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Model - Economic Growth, the Harrod Foreign Trade Multiplier and the Hicks Super-Multiplier - Export-Led Growth and the Balance of Payments Constraint - Export-Led Growth, Regional Problems and Cumulative Causation
Volume

: uk ISBN 9780333484241

Description

'...a well written book...covering...a vast amount of material...well balanced between the theoretical and applied works. The authors are judicious and fair in providing a balanced treatment of the two alternative theories of growth performance: supply-oriented and demand-oriented. The book will serve as a guideline to reearchers and policymakers...as a textbook for upperdivision undergraduate and graduate courses.'- Kashi Nath Tiwari, Kennesaw State College This is the first book of its kind to argue in a consistent and comprehensive way the idea that a country's growth performance cannot be properly understood without reference to the performance of its tradeable goods sector and the strength of its balance of payments. It puts forward a demand orientated theory of why growth rates differ between countries where the major constraint on demand is the balance of payments. The book is critical of neoclassical growth analysis and provides an alternative theory of growth performance to the supply orientated approach of neoclassical theory. There are theoretical chapters comparing and contrasting neoclassical growth analysis with the new demand orientated approach, and empirical sections which apply the new model to regions and countries, including two case studies of the UK and Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Alternative Theories of Growth Performance:I The Supply Orientated and Neoclassical Approaches - Alternative Theories of Growth Performance:II The Demand Orientated Approach - The Balance of Payments Constraint as an Explanation of International Growth Rate Differences - Non-Price Competition, Trade and the Balance of Payments - Critiques and Defences of the Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Model - Economic Growth, the Harrod Foreign Trade Multiplier and the Hicks Super-Multiplier - Export-Led Growth and the Balance of Payments Constraint - Export-Led Growth, Regional Problems and Cumulative Causation
Volume

: uk : pbk ISBN 9780333601129

Description

'... a well written book ... covering ... a vast amount of material ... well balanced between the theoretical and applied works. The authors are judicious and fair in providing a balanced treatment of the two alternative theories of growth performance: supply-oriented and demand-oriented. The book will serve as a guideline to researchers and policymakers ... as a textbook for upperdivision undergraduate and graduate courses.'- Kashi Nath Tiwari, Kennesaw State College This is the first book of its kind to argue in a consistent and comprehensive way the idea that a country's growth performance cannot be properly understood without reference to the performance of its tradeable goods sector and the strength of its balance of payments. It puts forward a demand orientated theory of why growth rates differ between countries where the major constraint on demand is the balance of payments. The book is critical of neoclassical growth analysis and provides an alternative theory of growth performance to the supply orientated approach of neoclassical theory. There are theoretical chapters comparing and contrasting neoclassical growth analysis with the new demand orientated approach, and empirical sections which apply the new model to regions and countries, including two case studies of the UK and Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Alternative Theories of Growth Performance:I The Supply Orientated and Neoclassical Approaches - Alternative Theories of Growth Performance:II The Demand Orientated Approach - The Balance of Payments Constraint as an Explanation of International Growth Rate Differences - Non-Price Competition, Trade and the Balance of Payments - Critiques and Defences of the Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Model - Economic Growth, the Harrod Foreign Trade Multiplier and the Hicks Super-Multiplier - Export-Led Growth and the Balance of Payments Constraint - Export-Led Growth, Regional Problems and Cumulative Causation

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  • NCID
    BA21301042
  • ISBN
    • 031210183X
    • 033348424X
    • 0333601122
  • LCCN
    93001788
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Basingstoke,New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxx, 616 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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