Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Catch-up, convergence and the sources of post-war European growth: introduction and overview
- 2 Macroeconomic accounts for European countries
- 3 Sectoral growth accounting and structural change in post-war Europe
- 4 Measures of fixed capital stocks in the post-war period: a five-country study
- 5 Technology indicators and economic growth in the European area: some empirical evidence
- 6 Human capital and productivity in manufacturing during the twentieth century: Britain, Germany and the United States
- 7 Convergence and divergence in the European periphery: productivity in Eastern and Southern Europe in retrospect
- 8 Convergence: what the historical record shows
- 9 Growth and convergence in OECD countries: a closer look
- 10 On the historical continuity of the process of economic growth
- 11 Europe's Golden Age: an econometric investigation of changing trend rates of growth
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Catch-up, convergence and the sources of post-war European growth: introduction and overview
- 2 Macroeconomic accounts for European countries
- 3 Sectoral growth accounting and structural change in post-war Europe
- 4 Measures of fixed capital stocks in the post-war period: a five-country study
- 5 Technology indicators and economic growth in the European area: some empirical evidence
- 6 Human capital and productivity in manufacturing during the twentieth century: Britain, Germany and the United States
- 7 Convergence and divergence in the European periphery: productivity in Eastern and Southern Europe in retrospect
- 8 Convergence: what the historical record shows
- 9 Growth and convergence in OECD countries: a closer look
- 10 On the historical continuity of the process of economic growth
- 11 Europe's Golden Age: an econometric investigation of changing trend rates of growth
- Index
Summary
The work reported in this book is the outcome of a network of (mainly) European economists which operated during 1992/3 sponsored by the SPES programme of the European Commission, directed by Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo and administered by CEPR. The reawakening of economists' interest in growth since the mid-1980s has been one of the principal reasons for this project. At the same time it is now quite a while since the last exercise of a similar kind, the much used and respected collection edited by Boltho (The European Economy: Growth and Crisis, OUP, 1982).
Members of the network on European growth devoted a good deal of effort to exploring quantitative aspects of economic growth with a view to improving understanding of and facilitating access to the key raw materials of a database for studying post-war growth. In addition, the evidence on key topics such as convergence, investment in broad capital and trend growth was evaluated on a cross-sectional basis. This work is reported here and is accompanied by a complementary volume (Crafts and Toniolo, 1996) based on a series of case studies of post-war growth in individual counries written in such a way to give the reader a genuinely comparative picture.
The case studies volume also contains chapters on important aspects of the general experience of growth and an overview chapter which is intended to provide the context into which the country studies fit. This organization permitted the establishment of a common format for the country studies and facilitated exchange of ideas and mutual criticism of initial drafts with the result that the chapters are more comparable than would otherwise have been the case.
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- Quantitative Aspects of Post-War European Economic Growth , pp. xxi - xxiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997