Productivity and Growth over the Years at BPEA
回顾并评价了BPEA期刊中关于美国生产率增长和国际增长差异的八篇论文，探讨了增长放缓与复苏的原因，以及地理、制度等结构性因素与政策对增长的影响。
Over the past fifty years <i>BPEA</i> authors have written extensively about both domestic US productivity growth and international sources of growth differences in rich and poor countries. This paper summarizes and evaluates five <i>BPEA</i> papers on US productivity growth that focus primarily on the sources of the post-1965 growth slowdown and post-1995 growth revival. Then three papers are reviewed on international growth differences, highlighting the difficulties of empirically determining the sources of growth and the competing roles in growth outcomes of structural factors like geography and demography versus policy and governmental issues, including legal systems, property rights, and absence of corruption.