Economic Growth: Sources, Trends and Cycles (Series on central banking, analysis, and economic policies)

hardcover with dust jacket, mild wear to the jacket, A nice copy. No writing or highlighting. Clean pages, shows very minimal signs of wear from use. Shipped with care in a bubble mailer. Feel free to inquire for photos or more details. --- Volume six in the Central Bank of Chile's Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies series, edited by Norman Loayza and Raimundo Soto under the series editorship of Loayza and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel. The collection assembles conference papers examining the determinants of long-run growth alongside the cyclical behaviour of output, with substantial attention to the Chilean experience. Chapters proceed from general analysis to country application: an overview chapter on the sources of economic growth by the editors opens the volume, followed by contributions on convergence, factor accumulation, productivity, and policy. Among the studies gathered are Marcus Noland and Howard Pack on industrial policies and growth and the lessons drawn from international experience, Harald Beyer and Rodrigo Vergara on productivity and economic growth in the Chilean case, Francisco Gallego and Norman Loayza on the golden period for growth in Chile, with explanations and forecasts, Vittorio Corbo and Jose Tessada on growth and adjustment in Chile during the 1990s, and Gabriel Contreras and Pablo Garcia on estimating gaps and trends for the Chilean economy, closing the volume at page 554. Text in English.…