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1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Contents |
Contributors; 1 Introduction: The Convergence of Productivity, Its Significance, and Its Varied Connotations; 2 Explaining the Economic Performance of Nations, 1820-1989; 3 Multivariate Growth Patterns: Contagion and Common Forces as Possible Sources of Convergence; 4 Catch-up and Convergence in the Postwar Growth Boom and After; 5 The Erosion of U.S. Technological Leadership as a Factor in Postwar Economic Convergence; 6 Social Organization and Technological Leadership; 7 Capital Intensity and TFP Convergence by Industry in Manufacturing, 1963-1985 |
| Summary |
This comprehensive study is a collection of original articles that view the current state of knowledge of the convergence hypothesis. The hypothesis asserts that at least since the Second World War, and perhaps for a considerable period before that, the group of industrial countries was growing increasingly homogeneous in terms of levels of productivity, technology and per capita incomes. In addition, there was general catch up toward the leader, with gradual erosion of the gap between the leader country, the U.S., throughout most of the pertinent period, and that of the countries lagging most |
| Analysis |
Industrial productivity - History - 20th century - Congresses |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Industrial productivity -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Income -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Economic history -- 1945- -- Congresses
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Comparative economics -- Congresses
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Comparative economics
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Economic history
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Income
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Industrial productivity
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nelson, Richard R
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Wolff, Edward N
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| ISBN |
9781601299390 |
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1601299397 |
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9780195359268 |
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0195359267 |
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