Description
Book SynopsisThis monumental study is an account of the world economy since the eighteenth century, an analysis and prescription for the future, and a challenge to the neo-Keynesian theories of income determination and growth.
Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One. The Demographic Transition
- 1. Two Centuries of Expansion in World Population
- 2. Population Dynamics among the Early-Comers to Industrialization I
- 3. Population Dynamics among the Late-Comers to Industrialization
- 4. The Contemporary Scene: A Preliminary View
- Part Two. Growth since the Eighteenth Century: Overall View
- 5. Industrial Growth and Its Diffusion
- 6. Growth and Structural Change
- 7. International Trade and Its Changing Distribution
- 8. Prices
- 9. Relative Prices and the Terms of Trade
- Part Three. Trend Periods
- 10. Balanced and Unbalanced Growth
- 11. 1790-1815
- 12. 1815-1848
- 13. 1848-1873
- 14. 1873-1920
- 15. 1920-1936
- 16. 1936-1951
- 17. 1951-1972
- 18. The Price Revolution of 1972-1976
- 19. Trend Periods Summarized
- Part Four. Business Cycles
- 20. Cycles: Another Result of Unbalanced Growth
- 21. Cycles in the Eighteenth Century: 1700-1783
- 22. Cycles in the Classic Era: 1783-1914
- 23. Interwar Cycles: 1919-1939
- 24. Cycles in Growth Rates: 1945-1973
- 25. Inflation: The Price of Full Employment
- 26. Stagflation: 1974-1976
- Part Five. Stages of Economic Growth: Twenty Countries
- 27. Aggregate and Sectoral Analysis of Growth
- 28. Great Britain
- 29. The United States
- 30. France
- 31. Germany
- 32. Sweden
- 33. Japan
- 34. Russia-USSR
- 35. Italy
- 36. Canada
- 37. Australia
- 38. Argentina
- 39. Turkey
- 40. Brazil
- 41. Mexico
- 42. Iran
- 43. India
- 44. China
- 45. Taiwan
- 46. Thailand
- 47. South Korea
- 48. Four Conclusions
- Part Six. The Future of the World Economy
- 49. Are There Limits to Growth?
- 50. Population and Food
- 51. Energy
- 52. Raw Materials
- 53. Pollution and the Environment
- 54. Political Economy in the Fifth Kondratieff Upswing
- 55. Tasks of International Cooperation
- Appendix A. Index of World Industrial Production, 1700-1971
- Appendix B. The Volume and Distribution of World Trade, 1720-1971
- Appendix C. The Size of the United States Motor Vehicle Sectoral Complex, Early 1970's
- Appendix D. Sources for Charted Data, Part Five
- Notes
- Author Index
- Subject Index
