Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle (Hardcover)

PART I The idea of Transformational Growth 1 From craft to mass production The changing character of market adjustment 2 Methods and methodology in historical macroeconomics PART II Industrial history 3 The US economy during World War II 4 Transformational Growth and the merger movement from 1895 to 1904 Some theoretical, empirical and historical evidence PART III Studies of stylized facts 5 Transformational Growth and the business cycle 6 UK Business cycles Stylized facts and the marginal cost/marginal productivity debate 7 Product wages and the elasticities of effective demand in the United States during the old and the new business cycles 8 Price v. output adjustments The changing nature of the business cycle in Germany, 1871?1989 9 Transformational Growth in Japan 10 Argentina Transformational Growth in the absence of the new cycle 11 Canada and Argentina A comparison PART IV Implications for economic analysis 12 On Transformational Growth 13 Conclusion