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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808193903321

Autore

Rostow W. W (Walt Whitman), <1916-2003.>

Titolo

Theorists of economic growth from David Hume to the present [[electronic resource] ] : with a perspective on the next century / / W.W. Rostow ; including a mathematical appendix by Michael Kennedy and the author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1992

ISBN

0-19-535979-8

1-4294-0779-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 712 p. ) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

KennedyMichael <1949->

Disciplina

338.9009

Soggetti

Economists - History

Economic development - History

Industry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; Part I: Six classical economists: David Hume to Karl Marx; David Hume and Adam Smith; T. R. Malthus and David Ricardo; Growth theory moves to the periphery, 1870-1939; The setting; Alfred Marshall (1842-1924); Population and the working force; Investment and technology, Part One: The emergence of national income accounting; Investment and technology, Part Two: Growth theory; J. S. Mill and Karl Marx; Part Three: Growth analysis post-1945: A three ring circus: Introduction; Formal models of economic growth: Rise and subsidence; Statistical analyses of the structure of growth: from morphology to policy - almost; Development economics; Business cycles and growth: from Juglar to Keynes; Business cycles and growth: Keynes and after; Relative prices; Stages of and limits to growth; Part Four: Problems and prospects; Two concluding questions; What don't we know about economic growth; Where are we? An agenda in mid-passage; Appendix: Models of economic growth; Rostow's theory of economic growth; The A. Smith model revisited; A rich country-poor country model



Sommario/riassunto

This is a survey of the contributions made by modern economic theorists, from Adam Smith and David Hume to those of the present day.