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Title Productivity growth in Japan and the United States / edited by Charles R. Hulten.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1990]
©1990

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Description 1 online resource (x, 446 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in income and wealth ; v. 53
Studies in income and wealth ; v. 53.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 5. Decisions of Firms and Productivity Growth with Fixed Input Constraints: An Empirical Comparison of U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing6. Energy Price Shocks and Productivity Growth in the Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Industries; 7. Productivity Growth and Changes in the Terms of Trade in Japan and the United States; 8. Alternative Measures of Capital Inputs in Japanese Manufacturing; 9. The Taxation of Income from Capital in Japan: Historical Perspectives and Policy Simulations; 10. Taxes a.
Summary Emerging from the ruins of the Second World War, the Japanese economy has grown at double-digit rate throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s, and, when the oil crisis of the 1970s slowed growth throughout the industrialized world, Japanese growth throughout the industrialized world, Japanese growth rates remained relatively strong. There have been many attempts by scholars from a wide range of disciplines to explain this remarkable history, but for economists interested in the quantitative analysis of economic growth and the principal question addressed is how Japan was able to grow so rapidly.
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Subject Industrial productivity -- Japan -- Congresses.
Industrial productivity.
Japan.
Industrial productivity -- United States -- Congresses.
United States.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1960-1985
Indexed Term Productivity (Economics)
Japan
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Hulten, Charles R.
Other Form: Print version: Productivity growth in Japan and the United States. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990 0226360598 9780226360591 (DLC) 90046002 (OCoLC)22308361
ISBN 9780226360607 (electronic book)
0226360601 (electronic book)
0226360598 (alkaline paper)
9780226360591 (alkaline paper)