Thinking about Growth: And Other Essays on Economic Growth and Welfare

Abstract

Editors' preface Preface Part I. Growth and the Economists: 1. Thinking about growth 2. Economics of growth Part II. Studies in Long-Term Growth: 3. Resource and Output Trends in the United States since 1870 4. Economic growth in the United States: a review article 5. Manpower, capital, and technology 6. Rapid growth potential and its realization: the experience of capitalist economies in the postwar period 7. Catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind Part III. Long Swings in Economic Growth: 8. The nature and significance of Kuznets cycles 9. The passing of the Kuznets cycle Part IV. Growth and Welfare: 10. Economic goals and social welfare in the next generation 11. Growing up in an affluent society 12. The retreat from economic advance: changing ideas about economic progress 13. Welfare quandaries and productivity concerns.

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