Productivity Growth and Economic Performance

CARLUCCIO BIANCHI Professor of Economic Policy, University of Pavia, Italy SERGIO DESTEFANIS Associate Professor of Economics, University of Salerno, Italy MIGUEL A. LEA"N-LEDESMA Lecturer in Economics, University of Kent GIORGIO RAMPA Professor of Economics, University of Genoa, Italy MARK ROBERTS Fellow in Economics, Cambridge University, UK

This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output - presents a number of comprehensive surveys and assessments of the vast literature available.This collection of essays on Verdoorn's Law - the relationship between the growth of industrial productivity and output - presents a number of comprehensive surveys and assessments of the vast literature available. The collection not only includes an English translation of Verdoorn's seminal article originally published in Italian, but also new empirical evidence for the Verdoorn Law and new developments in the theoretical modelling of cumulative causation.