R. C. O. Matthews, C. H. Feinstein, and J. Odling-Smee

Print publication date: 1982

Print ISBN-13: 9780198284536

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003

DOI: 10.1093/0198284535.001.0001

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ContentsFRONT MATTER

Title Pages
Preface
Figures
Tables
A Note on Conventions and Abbreviations
Part One The Method, the Problems, and the Profile
- Chapter One A Quantitative‐Historical Approach to British Economic Growth
- Chapter Two The Rate of Growth of Total Output
Part Two The Proximate Sources of Growth in the Economy as a Whole
- Chapter Three Labor: Quantity
- Chapter Four Labor: Quality
- Chapter Five Capital
- Chapter Six Factor Shares
Chapter Seven Total Factor Productivity
Part Three Growth and Its Proximate Sources in the Principal Sectors of the Economy
- Chapter Eight Output, Inputs, and Productivity by Sector
- Chapter Nine The Effects of Structural Change
Part Four Further Consideration of Some of the Forces Affecting the Rate of Growth
- Chapter Ten Demand
- Chapter Eleven Investment: Introduction
- Chapter Twelve Investment: The Cost and Availability of Finance
- Chapter Thirteen Investment: The Forces Determining Investment in the Principal Sectors
- Chapter Fourteen International Aspects: Introduction
- Chapter Fifteen The Relationship Between International Transactions and Economic Growth
Part Five An Overall View
- Chapter Sixteen The Rate of Growth and the Proximate Sources of Growth
- Chapter Seventeen Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Total Factor Input and Total Factor Productivity
END MATTER

Appendix A Alternative Measures of Gross Domestic Product

Appendix B The Measurement of Trend Rates of Growth
Appendix C The Total and Economically Active Populations of Great Britain, 1881–1973
Appendix D Hours Worked
Appendix E The Educational Level of the Labor Force
Appendix F The Measurement of the Capital Stock
Appendix G The Age of the Capital Stock
Appendix H The Rise in Capital Goods Prices, 1938–1948
Appendix I Total Factor Productivity and ‖the Production Function
Appendix J Correlations Among Manufacturing Industries
Appendix K Sectoral Growth Rates in Postwar Cycles
Appendix L Productivity Trends Within the Period 1873–1913
Appendix M Productivity Trends Within the Period 1924–1937
Appendix N Basic Statistics: Sources and Methods
Notes
References

Index

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International Aspects: Introduction

Chapter:: (p. 420 ) Chapter Fourteen International Aspects: Introduction
Source:: British Economic Growth 1856-1973
Author(s):: R. C. O. Matthews
C. H. Feinstein (Contributor Webpage)
J. C. Odling‐Smee
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

DOI:10.1093/0198284535.003.0014

This chapter explains the theoretical links behind the issues discussed in Ch. 15, namely, what explains trends in the UK's international transactions and how those transactions affected growth. The trends in international transactions are set out.

Keywords: balance of payments, international transactions

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