Productivity and American Leadership - The Long View

Sommario

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.

Info autore

William J. Baumol is Professor of Economics at New York University and Director of the university's C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics. Sue Anne Batey Blackman is Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Economics at Princeton University. Edward N. Wolff is Professor of Economics at New York University.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: W. Baumol, William J. Baumol, William J. Blackman Baumol, Sue Ann Batey Blackman, Sue Anne Batey Blackman, Edward N. Wolff
• Con la collaborazione di: William J. Baumol (Editore), Sue A. Blackman (Editore), Edward N. Wolff (Editore)
• Editore: The MIT Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.10.1991
• EAN: 9780262521635
• ISBN: 978-0-262-52163-5
• Pagine: 408
• Serie: Productivity and American Leadership; The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica