Incluye bibliografía

Preface / John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru --
Introduction: economic growth and change / John Adams and Francesco Pigliaru --
Pt. I. The Fabric of Global Economic Growth -- 1. On the economic rise and decline of nations / Dennis C. Mueller -- 2. Does sovereignty matter for economic growth? An analysis of growth rates between 1870 and 1950 / M. Shahid Alam -- 3. Society, Politics, and Economic Development thirty years after / Irma Adelman -- 4. Openness, capital mobility and global convergence / Hui Pan -- 5. R&D, technology and economic growth / Livio Cricelli and Agostino La Bella -- Pt. II. Contrasting Patterns: The United States and Europe -- 6. Inequality in regional and state per capita incomes in the United States: how much convergence has taken place? / Andrew M. Sum and Walter N. Fogg. 7 -- Per capita earnings inequality across regions and states in the United States: trends, sources, determinants / Andrew M. Sum and Walter N. Fogg -- 8. European regional growth: do sectors matter? / Raffaele Paci and Francesco Pigliaru. 9. European 'regional' clubs': do they exist and where are they heading? On economic and technological differences between European regions / Bart Verspagen -- 10. Human capital and growth in the European regions: does allocation matter? / Sergio Lodde -- 11. The European Union's regional development programmes: allocation of funds by basic macroeconomic indicators / Gustav Schachter, Carmelina Bevilacqua and Levanto Schachter -- Pt. III. Regional Mosaics in National Contexts -- 12. Growth and sectoral dynamics in the Italian regions / Raffaele Paci and Francesco Pigliaru -- 13. Will East Germany become a new Mezzogiorno? / Andrea Boltho, Wendy Carlin and Pasquale Scaramozzino -- 14. Regional integration and public investment in Spain / Teresa Garcia-Mila and Ramon Marimon -- 15. An assessment of regional risk sharing in Italy and the United Kingdom / Luca Dedola, Stefano Usai and Marco Vannini -- 16. Economic growth and regional convergence in a sustainable space-economy / Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and Peter Nijkamp.

The pursuit of economic growth is at the top of every nation’s policy agenda at the end of the 20th century. This authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly-based convergence model of economic growth by considering global, national and regional patterns of growth from a comparative perspective.