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Productivity Growth and Economic Performance

Essays on Verdoorn's Law

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. John McCombie

    1. Downing College, Cambridge, UK

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  2. Maurizio Pugno

    1. University of Trento, Italy

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  3. Bruno Soro

    1. University of Genoa, Italy

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This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output - presents a number of comprehensive surveys and assessments of the vast literature available. The collection not only includes an English translation of Verdoorn's seminal article originally published in Italian, but also new empirical evidence for the Verdoorn Law and new developments in the theoretical modelling of cumulative causation.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • John McCombie, Maurizio Pugno, Bruno Soro
    Pages 1-27

  3. Factors that Determine the Growth of Labour Productivity

    • P. J. Verdoorn
    Pages 28-36

  4. ‘Fattori che regolano lo sviluppo della produttività del lavoro’ Fifty Years On

    • Bruno Soro
    Pages 37-63

  5. Increasing Returns and the Verdoorn Law from a Kaldorian Perspective

    • John McCombie
    Pages 64-114

  6. A Reappraisal of Verdoorn’s Law for the Italian Economy, 1951–1997

    • Carluccio Bianchi
    Pages 115-135

  7. The Verdoorn Law: Some Evidence from Non-Parametric Frontier Analysis

    • Sergio Destefanis
    Pages 136-164

  8. Cumulative Causation and Unemployment

    • Mark Roberts
    Pages 165-196

  9. Cumulative Growth and the Catching-Up Debate From a Disequilibrium Standpoint

    • Miguel A. León-Ledesma
    Pages 197-218

  10. Verdoorn’s Law: Some Notes on Output Measurement and the Role of Demand

    • Giorgio Rampa
    Pages 219-238

  11. Verdoorn’s Law and the Analysis of Steady-State Growth: from an Unsatisfactory Marriage to a New Perspective

    • Maurizio Pugno
    Pages 239-258

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 259-281
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Downing College, Cambridge, UK

    John McCombie

  • University of Trento, Italy

    Maurizio Pugno

  • University of Genoa, Italy

    Bruno Soro

About the editors

CARLUCCIO BIANCHI Professor of Economic Policy, University of Pavia, Italy SERGIO DESTEFANIS Associate Professor of Economics, University of Salerno, Italy MIGUEL A. LEÓN-LEDESMA Lecturer in Economics, University of Kent GIORGIO RAMPA Professor of Economics, University of Genoa, Italy MARK ROBERTS Fellow in Economics, Cambridge University, UK

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