ABSTRACT
This collection examines the phenomenon of economic growth with admirable economic vigour and includes contributions from leading academic figures. Theoretical approaches, underpinned by original empirical work, will make this a book welcomed by students and academics of macroeconomics and growth theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Explaining endogenous growth
chapter 2|12 pages
Efficiency, innovation and productivity: on the impact of unemployment on endogenous growth
Martin Zagler
chapter 4|23 pages
Does finance matter for growth? The new growth theory facing the East Asian ‘productivity puzzle’
Flora Bellone Muriel Dal-Pont
part |2 pages
Part II Growth and fluctuations
chapter 5|19 pages
Neo-Schumpeterian versus neo-Kaldorian approaches: two different views on learning, knowledge and cyclical growth
Richard Arena Alain Raybaut
part |2 pages
Part III Growth and government intervention
chapter 10|17 pages
Skill-biased technological change: on endogenous growth, wage inequality and government intervention
HUGO HOLLANDERS AND BAS TER WEEL
part |2 pages
Part IV Growth and employment
part |2 pages
Part V The empirics of growth
chapter 13|17 pages
The importance of capital stock in unemployment and wage determination: an
Philip Arestis
