Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth (Paperback)

Figures. Tables. 1. Introduction; B. van Ark, et al. Part I: Understanding Growth Regimes. 2. Interpreting the `One Big Wave' in U.S. Long-term Productivity Growth; R.J. Gordon. 3. Surveying Two Centuries of Dutch Growth, 1807-1995: (Dis)equilibrium Growth Regimes in International Perspective; J.L. van Zanden. 4. Institutions and Economic Growth in Postwar Europe: Evidence and Conjectures; B. Eichengreen, P. Vazquez. Part II: Determinants of Productivity. 5. The Interaction between Business Cycles and Productivity Growth: Evidence from US Industrial Data; J.R. Malley, et al. 6. Productivity, Income and Technological Change in the Netherlands: Causes and Explanations of Divergent Trends; B. van Ark, J. de Haan. 7. Labour Productivity Growth in Dutch Business Services; H. van der Wiel. 8. Productivity and Specificity in Factor Inputs; E.J. Bartelsman. Part III: Technology Diffusion and Growth. 9. Knowledge, Technology, and Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution; J. Mokyr. 10. Human Capital, R&D, Productivity Growth and Assimilation of Technologies in the Netherlands; B. Jacobs, et al. 11. The Effect of Pharmaceutical Utilisation and Innovation on Hospitalisation and Mortality; F. Lichtenberg. 12. Productivity, R&D Spillovers and Trade; J. Fagerberg, B. Verspagen. 13. Do Technology Spillovers Matter for Growth? M. Rensman, G.H. Kuper. Author Index. Subject Index.