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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bjork, Gordon C. Way it worked and why it won't. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999 (OCoLC)655018021 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gordon C Bjork |
| ISBN: | 0275965325 9780275965327 0275965317 9780275965310 |
| OCLC Number: | 40444111 |
| Description: | xviii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. The Argument: The Way It Worked and Why It Won't -- Ch. 2. Explanation and Description of Economic Growth and Structural Change -- Ch. 3. The Quantitative Record of U.S. Economic Growth -- Ch. 4. Understanding the Measurement of Economic Activity -- Ch. 5. Structural Change and the Slowdown of Productivity Growth -- Ch. 6. Structural Change and the Participation Rate -- Ch. 7. Transfers to the Older Generation: Taxes and Saving -- Ch. 8. Transfers to the Younger Generation: Economic Growth and the Increasing Burden of Educational Costs -- Ch. 9. Explaining the Slowdown: Developing a Theory of the Mature Economy -- Ch. 10. Some Implications of the Slowdown in Economic Growth in the Mature Economy. |
| Responsibility: | Gordon C. Bjork. |
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.,."The Way It Worked and Why It Won't: Structural Change and the Slowdown of U.S. Economic Growth raises some issues of fundamental importance to understanding the future of the American economy. I think that Professor Bjork lays them out well and has a suggestive set of answers to a complicated and controversial set of questions. All in all a very worthwhile study."-Douglass C. North Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences Washington University Nobel Laureate in Economics, 1993 Read more...
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