Structural Dynamics and Economic Growth

Richard Arena is Professor of Economics at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, where he is Director of the Institute of Human and Social Sciences. He is also the managing editor of the Revue d'Economie Industrielle. Pier Luigi Porta is Professor of Economics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction: structural economic dynamics and contemporary growth theory Richard Arena and Pier Luigi Porta; Part I. Structural Dynamics: Past and Present: 1. Structural change: some historical aspects with special reference to classical economics Peter Groenewegen; 2. Structural dynamics in an historical perspective Mario Pomini; 3. Two approaches to the study of structural change and economic development: Kuznets and Pasinetti Moshe Syrquin; 4. Analyzing knowledge flows by means of vertical integration Önder Nomaler and Bart Verspagen; 5. Growth: towards a structural endogenous macro-model William J. Baumol; Part II. Structural Dynamics: The Cambridge Keynesian Perspective: 6. Luigi Pasinetti: the senior living heir of the Cambridge school of economics and the last of the great system-builders Geoffrey Harcourt; 7. Toward a synthesis in post-Keynesian economics in Luigi Pasinetti's contribution Heinrich Bortis; 8. Growth theory, structural dynamics and the analysis of consumption Davide Gualerzi; 9. Luigi Pasinetti's structural economic dynamics and the employment consequences of new technologies Harald Hagemann; 10. The concept of 'natural economic system': a tool for structural analysis and an instrument for policy design Roberto Scazzieri; 11. Structural change and invariable standards Takashi Yagi; Part III. Epilogue: Structural dynamics as part of the 'unfinished revolution': on Pasinetti and the unfinished Keynesian revolution Robert M. Solow; First afterword: Pasinetti on structural dynamics Robert M. Solow; Growth and structural change: perspectives for the future Luigi L. Pasinetti; Second afterword: the significance of structural economic dynamics Luigi L. Pasinetti; Index.

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