Incluye referencias bibliográficas.

I. Level and Variability of Rates of Growth
Average Rates of Growth: Summary of Evidence
Selected Aspects of Aggregate Growth Rates
International implications of differences in growth rates
Long-term trends in growth rates
Long swings in growth rates
II. Growth of Productivity and Nonconventional Costs
Growth of Productivity
Labor input
Capital input
Combined inputs and residual productivity
Nonconventional Costs: Current and Capital
III. Sectoral Shares in Product: A Cross-Section View
Association between Product per Capita and Sectoral Shares
Effect of Size
Comments on the Cross-Section Association
IV. Sectoral Shares in Product: Long-Term Trends
Changes in Shares: The Three Major Sectors
Changes in Shares: Subdivisions of the I and S Sectors
Time Trends and Cross-Sections: General Comments
Comparisons of Long-Term Changes with Cross-Section Differentials
V. Sectoral Shares in Labor Force: A Cross-Section View
Association between Product per Capita and Sectoral Shares
Sectoral Product per Worker
Adjustments for Coverage of Labor Force Data
Adjustment for scope
Problems of classification
Intersectoral Inequality in Product per Worker
VI. Sectoral Shares in Labor Force: Long-Term Trends
Changes in Shares: The Three Major Sectors
Changes in Shares: Subdivisions of the I and S Sectors
Time Trends and Cross-Sections
Changes in Sectoral Product per Worker
VII. Summary and Interrelations
A Summary of Findings
Relation between Aggregate Growth and Production Structure: An Additional Illustration
Relation between Aggregate Growth and Shifts in Production Structure: General Comments
High and Low Growth Components and Limits to Aggregate Growth
Structural Changes: Economic and Noneconomic
The Sequences of Structural Change and Growth

In the seven chapters presented here noted economist and Nobel Prize–winner Simon Kuznets summarizes the results of his studies of the economic growth of nations in modern times. Working over the last twenty years, he has concerned himself largely with national product and its components—with long-term trends in growth in total output and in labor force changes in production structure. Such comprehensive data, Kuznets maintains, in which significantly different elements are distinguished and measured, are indispensable both for observations and analysis of the essentially quantitative process of economic growth and for the search for the general and variant characteristics of this growth. He covers a variety of countries and is able to suggest valid general characteristics and test the limits within which they hold. He also provides comparisons between the economically developed and the less developed countries and evaluates the relation between per capita product and the structure of production and the movements of both over time in the course of modern economic growth.