Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the Twenty-First Century

by Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone

Book Overview

Ante la inminente desaceleraci n de la econom a, se ha vuelto indispensable revisar la vigencia del modelo neocl sico de desarrollo. de acuerdo con Bluestone y Harrison, cumplir con los lineamientos... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520230701
• ISBN13: 9780520230705
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Throwing light on technological long waves.

Using historical data on the rate of increase of productivity, these authors build a convincing case that the United States is near the beginning of an economic boom based on information technlogy. They go well beyond most economists in explaining the nature of economic long waves (also called Kondratieff waves). They then explain in depth how current government economic policies are misdirected in terms of maximizing this pattern of economic growth.