The relationship between productivity, technology and economic growth has been debated
extensively in the endogenous growth, growth accounting, New Economy and policy …

Economists have long debated the best way to explain the sources of productivity growth.
Neoclassical theory and'new growth'theory both regard investment-broadly defined to …

This useful new book reviews the literature on technology and economic growth covering
historical and theoretical developments such as:* new models for measuring productivity …

A growth accounting exercise is conducted for 88 countries for 1960-94 to examine the
source of cross-country differences in total factor productivity (TFP) levels. Two differences …

TFP is interpreted in the literature in different, mutually contradictory ways. Changes in TFP
are shown to measure not technological change, only the super‐normal returns to investing …

This survey article examines the recent studies of technological change or total factor
productivity (TFP) as a source of growth in East Asian economies. The major objective of the …

DC: Brookings, 1974). The role of technology and R&D has been studied by economists for
more than forty years. The earliest studies almost stumbled upon the importance of …

The recent slowdown in the growth of productivity in the United States has attracted
considerable attention. The deceleration has been attributed to many factors, including a …

We have two main concerns in this paper. First, we wish to assess the extent to which total
factor productivity (TFP) can be taken as a measure of an economy's long-term technological …

Technological Change & Productivity Growth Page 1 Page 2 Harwood Fundamentals of Pure
and Applied Economics TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH he ap …