Western Economies in Transition: Structural Change and Adjustment Policies in Industrial CountriesIrving Leveson, Jimmy W. Wheeler Monograph emanating from the Hudson Institute conference "Outlook and Policy for Industrial Structural Change in OECD countries", focusing on trends and changes in economic structure and economic policy issues - covers relations between technological change, economic growth and productivity, employment and economic implications of growing service sectors, capital formation and investment policy, international competition, trade policy, protectionism and adjustment alternatives, etc. Graphs and references. Conference held in Washington? 1979 Jan 25 and 26. |
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The Policy Context Robert D Hormats | 3 |
Part 2 | 34 |
Economic Growth and Structural Change in | 41 |
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