The economics of productivity

Author(s)

• Wolff, Edward N.
• Blaug, Mark

Bibliographic Information

The economics of productivity

edited by Edward N. Wolff

（The international library of critical writings in economics / series editor, Mark Blaug, 77）（An Elgar reference collection）

Edward Elgar Pub., c1997

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Economics of Productivity provides an anthology of many of the leading papers on productivity analysis. Part 1 of the collection portrays the development of production functions and growth accounting, including classic papers by Robert Solow, Dale Jorgenson, Edward Denison, and Angus Maddison. Part 2 covers topics on the economics of research and development and technological spillovers, featuring works by Zvi Griliches and Edwin Mansfield. Part 3 is devoted to evolutionary and Schumpeterian models of technological change, including articles by Richard Nelson and Sydney Winter. Studies by Moses Abramovitz and William Baumol, both published in 1986, document a convergence in labour productivity among industrialized economies, and Part 4 includes several seminal papers on this topic. Part 5 treats another important development in productivity analysis - endogenous growth theory, in which production itself creates the conditions of further technical change. The input-output framework provides another powerful system for the measurement of productivity growth, and articles on this topic are presented in Part 6. A dramatic slowdown in the rate of productivity growth occurred in the early 1970s and this development spawned a large literature on the subject of productivity, which is highlighted in the last part of the volume.

Table of Contents

Contents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: Production Functions and Growth Accounting Part II: R&D and Technological Spillovers Part III: Evolutionary, Schumpeterian and Technology Gap Models Index * Volume II: Part I: Productivity Convergence Part II: Endogenous Growth Theory Part III: Multi-Sectoral Approaches Part IV: The Productivity Slowdown Index

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Details

• NCID: BA30207544
• ISBN:
  • 1858984203
• LCCN: 96047992
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cheltenham, UK ; Lyme, US
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 331.81
  • LCC : HB241
  • DC21 : 338
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Production (Economic theory)
  • LCSH : Production functions (Economic theory)
  • LCSH : Industrial productivity
  • LCSH : Productivity accounting
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10867700
  • BA10867755