R&d, Education, and Productivity: A Retrospective

by Zvi Griliches

Zvi Griliches was a modern master of empirical economics. In this short book, he recounts what he and others have learned about the sources of economic growth. This book conveys the way he tackled research problems. For Griliches, economic theorizing without measurement is merely the fashioning of parables, but measurement without theory is blind. Judgment enables one to strike the right balance.

The book begins with economists' first attempts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674003438
• ISBN13: 9780674003439
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"