The Use of National Income Accounting to Study Comparative Economic Growth
Published Date
Copyright 2013
ISBN 978-0-226-25661-0
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This chapter discusses Simon Kuznets's plan to use national income measures to describe and explain the long-term economic trends of the industrial nations; his publication of ten monographs on quantitative aspects of economic growth; his theory of modern economic growth; his investigation of the interrelations between economic growth and population growth; and his belief in population growth as a driver of technological change.