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Quantitative Aspects of Post-War European Economic Growth

Nicholas Crafts editor Bart van Ark editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Jan '07

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A quantitative account of European growth since 1950 which combines historical and economic expertise.

This volume is an authoritative quantitative account of growth in Europe since 1950 that combines historical and economic expertise. The authors explore the catch-up and convergence evidence on a cross-sectional basis, armed with alternative theoretical ideas and empirical data.Interest in growth theory has reawakened since the middle of the 1980s, but it is some time since a comparative exercise has been carried out. This volume explores the catch-up and convergence evidence of European growth on a cross-sectional basis, armed not only with alternative theoretical ideas, but also with the empirical evidence since 1950 on which to draw. Individual chapters cover macroeconomic accounts, national accounts by industry, measures of fixed capital stocks, technology indicators, human capital, total factor productivity and changes in trend rates of growth, and each assesses the pitfalls, benefits and implications of the methods used. The result is an authoritative quantitative account of the dimensions of European economic growth within an explicitly internationally comparative framework.

'For those readers with quantitative inclinations this volume is a must for their library shelves. It provides an excellent reference source for the statistical data alone, and it should also prove useful to students taking advanced courses, providing they have had some training in economic studies.' Economic History Review

ISBN: 9780521032933

Dimensions: 229mm x 151mm x 21mm

Weight: 698g

468 pages