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Explaining economic growth

PSL Quarterly Review

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Title Explaining economic growth
 
Creator MADDISON, A.
 
Subject
European post-war economic growth, Edward Denison, capital formation, trade liberalisation
O47, O52, N14
 
Description The article analyses the methodological issues which arise in explaining European economic growth in the 1950s. The main concern is with Edward Denison’s Why Growth Rates Differ - which is the outstanding empirical contribution to growth literature. While his growth analysis is a major extension of the national accounting framework, it is argued that that he seriously underestimates the role of capital formation and trade liberalisation in the acceleration of Europe’s postwar growth. The author presents alternative estimates within the framework of Denison’s model which provide a better explanation of the growth experience of the 1950s. Denison’s implicit model and its historical origins are first described before his treatment of output, capital gains, labour inputs and other components of growth are analysed.
 
Publisher Economia civile
 
Contributor
 
Date 2013-11-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/11135
 
Source PSL Quarterly Review; Vol 25, No 102 (1972)
PSL Quarterly Review; Vol 25, No 102 (1972)
2037-3643
ISSN 2037-3635
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://annalidibotanica.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/11135/11008
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 A. MADDISON
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