Growing Prosperity: The Battle for Growth with Equity in the 21st Century

by Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone

The sudden drop in America's productivity rate beginning in the early 1970s and the simultaneous increase in income inequality made a generation of American economists pessimistic about the nation's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395822866
• ISBN13: 9780395822869
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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.