Economic growth in the long run : a history of empirical evidence / edited by Bart Van Ark.

VOLUMEN 1 -- Acknowledgements, vii -- General introduction / Bart van Ark, ix -- Introduction to Volume I / Bart van Ark, xiii -- Part I. Pioneers in measurement -- 1. Natural and political observations and conclusions upon the State & condition of England / Gregory King, 3 -- 2. Introduction / Michael G. Mulhall, 44 -- 3. National Income / Simon Kuznets, 74 -- 4. The construction of tables of national income, expenditure, savings and investment / J.E. Meade and Richard Stone, 94 -- 5. The present level of economic welfare in different countries / Colin Clark, 112 -- 6. Industrial production, productivity and distribution in Britain, Germany and the United States / L. Rostas, 142 -- Part II. International comparisons of income, output and expenditure -- 7. Level and variability of rates of growth / Simon Kuznets, 161 -- 8. Real GDP per capita for more than one hundred countries / Irving B. Kravis, Alan W. Heston and Robert Summers, 211 -- 9. International comparisons of income levels: a suggested new measure / Wilfred Beckerman and Robert Bacon, 239 -- 10. The Penn World table (mark 5): an expanded set of international comparisons, 1950-1988 / Robert Summers and Alan Heston, 257 -- 11. The main trends in national economic disparities since the industrial revolution / Paul Bairoch, 299 -- 12. A Comparison of levels of gdp per capita in developed and developing countries, 1700-1980 / Angus Maddison, 314 -- 13. Levels and movements of industrial productivity and real wages internationally compared, 1860-1970 / E.H. Phelps Brown, 329 -- 14. A survey of international comparisons of productivity / Irving B. Kravis, 343 -- Name index, 387.

VOLUMEN 2 -- Acknowledgements, vii -- General Introduction / Bart van Ark, ix -- Introduction to Volume II / Bart van Ark, xiii -- Part I. Growth accounting and productivity -- 1. Resource and output trends in the United States since 1870 / Moses Abramovitz, 3 -- 2. Productivity trends: capital and labor / John W. Kendrick, 22 -- 3. Technical change and the aggregate production function / Robert M. Solow, 32 -- 4. The explanation of productivity change / D.W. Jorgenson and Z. Griliches, 41 -- 5. Some major issues in productivity analysis: an examination of estimates by Jorgenson and Griliches / Edward F. Denison, 76 -- 6. Explaining economic growth / Angus Maddison, 103 -- 7. Relative productivity levels, 1947-1973: an international comparison / L.R. Christensen, D. Cummings and D.W. Jorgenson, 155 -- Part II. Convergence and divergence -- 8. Catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind / Moses Abramovitz, 191 -- 9. Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare: what the long-run data Sho / William J. Baumol, 213 -- 10. Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare: comment / J. Bradford de Long, 227 -- 11. Productivity growth, convergence, and welfare: reply / William J. Baumol and Edward N. Wolff, 244 -- 12. OECD comparative economic growth 1950-85: catch-up and convergence / Steve Dowrick and Duc-Tho Nguyea, 249 -- 13. A sensitivity analysis of cross-country growth regressions / Ross Levine and David Renelt, 270 -- 14. Capital formation and productivity convergence over the long term / Edward N. Wolff, 292 -- 15. The rise and fall of American Technological Leadership: the postwar era in historical perspective / Richard R. Nelson and Gavin Wright, 307 -- 16. Manufacturing and the convergence hypothesis: what the long-run data show / Stephen N. Broadberry, 341 -- 17. The evolution of global labor markets since 1830: background evidence and hypotheses / Jeffrey G. Williamson, 365 -- Name index, 421.

VOLUMEN 3 -- Acknowledgements, vii -- General introduction / Bart van Ark, ix -- Introduction to Volume III / Bart van Ark xiii -- Part I. Agricultural development, industrialization and economic growth -- 1. Factor prices and technical change in agricultural development: the United States and Japan, 1880-1960 / Yujiro Hayami and V.W. Ruttan, 3 -- 2. The first green revolution: the growth of production and productivity in european agriculture, 1870-1914 / J.L. van Zanden, 30 -- 3. Agricultural productivity and european industrialization, 1890- 1980 / Patrick K. O'Brien and Leandro Prados de la Escosura, 55 -- 4. British industrialization before 1841: evidence of slower growth during the industrial revolution / C. Knick Harley, 78 -- 5. Output growth and the British industrial revolution: a restatement of the Crafts-Harley view / N.F.R. Crafts, C.K. Harley, 101 -- 6. A new view of European industrialization / Rondo Cameron, 129 -- 7. Patterns of industrial growth / Hollis B. Chenery, 152 -- 8. Development patterns: among countries and over time / Hollis B. Chenery, Lance Taylor, 183 -- 9. Patterns of development-in- nineteenth century Europe / N.F.R. Crafts, 209 -- Part II. Capital, technology and grown -- 10. Technological change in the machine tool industry, 1840-1910 / Nathan Rosenberg, 233 -- 11. Sources of productivity change in ocean shipping, 1600-1850 / Douglass C. North, 263 -- 12. Understanding the economics of qwerty: the necessity of history / Paul A. David, 281 -- 13. Capital accumulation and the industrial revolution / C.H. Feinstein, 301 -- 14. Total capital and economic growth / John W. Kendrick, 317 -- 15. Productivity, r&d, and the data constraint / Zvi Griliches, 335 -- Name index, 359.