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Growth accounting in economic history : findings, lessons, and new directions

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Crafts, Nicholas and Woltjer, Pieter (2019) Growth accounting in economic history : findings, lessons, and new directions. Journal of Economic Surveys . doi:10.1111/joes.12348 ISSN 0950-0804.

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Abstract

There is now a large volume of growth accounting estimates covering the long run experience of advanced countries. However, most of the studies in economic history are not based on state-of-the-art methods. There is a trade-off between maintaining international comparability and achieving the best results for individual countries. A one-size-fits-all approach will not always do justice to the variety of historical experiences since the conventional assumptions may sometimes be inappropriate. Nevertheless, growth-accounting studies have produced some eye-catching results which provide food for thought both for economic historians and for growth economists. These include (1) the finding that TFP growth was comparatively slow during the First Industrial Revolution, (2) Solow’s famous conclusion that TFP growth accounted for 7/8ths of American labour-productivity growth was atypical, (3) the impact of new general-purpose technologies on growth typically takes a long time to materialize, ICT being the notable exception, and (4) that capital-deepening was much more important relative to TFP growth in east Asian than in western European catch-up growth. Growth accounting is undoubtedly a valuable item in the cliometrician’s toolkit. Nonetheless, we anticipate the introduction of more sophisticated methods and look forward to progress in understanding what explains marked differences in TFP performance.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Economic Surveys
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 0950-0804
Official Date: 6 December 2019
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6 December 2019Available
11 November 2019Accepted
DOI: 10.1111/joes.12348
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Crafts, N. and Woltjer, P. (2019), GROWTH ACCOUNTING IN ECONOMIC HISTORY: FINDINGS, LESSONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS. Journal of Economic Surveys. which been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12348. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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Date of first compliant deposit: 14 November 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 6 December 2021
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