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Economic Growth in the West - Comparative Experience in Europe and North America (Paperback)
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Economic Growth in the West - Comparative Experience in Europe and North America (Paperback)
Series: Economic History
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Hailed a "an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the way
in which western economies work" [Times Literary Supplement], this
penetrating study of economic growth compares and analyzes tic
rates of economic advance in the twelve leading countries that
comprise the industrial West. Mr. Maddison examines why, after
relative stagnation for several decades, the rate of economic
development accelerated in continental Europe in the 1950's,
whether this represented a new economic pattern which could be
maintained or was only a passing phase of recovery after World War
II. He observes that the economies of North America and the United
Kingdom seemed by comparison almost to stand still, and he explores
the influence of economic policy on the differing growth rates, and
the growth potentials and desirable lines of policy in the
industrial West. He then discusses the major powers' policy
problems, whose outcome so closely affects the developing nations.
Mr. Maddison presents basic statistical series, going back to 1870
in most cases, on gross national products, productivity,
population, labor force, employment, working hours, investment and
capital-output ratios. He draws upon this rich fund of comparative
statistics with skill and insight, relating it throughout to the
broad questions of economic policy which are at issue. This classic
book was first published in 1964.
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