Thinking about Growth: And Other Essays on Economic Growth and Welfare Book

Editors' preface; Preface;

Part I. Growth and the Economists:

1. Thinking about growth;
2. Economics of growth;

Part II. Studies in Long-Term Growth:
3. Resource and Output Trends in the United States since 1870;
4. Economic growth in the United States: a review article;
5. Manpower, capital, and technology;
6. Rapid growth potential and its realization: the experience of capitalist economies in the postwar period;
7. Catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind;

Part III. Long Swings in Economic Growth:
8. The nature and significance of Kuznets cycles;
9. The passing of the Kuznets cycle;

Part IV. Growth and Welfare:
10. Economic goals and social welfare in the next generation;
11. Growing up in an affluent society;
12. The retreat from economic advance: changing ideas about economic progress;
13. Welfare quandaries and productivity concerns.