Convergence of Productivity —— Cross-National Studies and Historical Evidence

----- 生产力的融合：跨国研究和历史证据

ISBN: 9780195083903 出版年：1994 页码：356 Oxford University Press

This collection of original articles reviews the current state of knowledge concerning the convergence hypothesis. This hypothesis asserts that, for a restricted set of countries, their productivity and living standards are undergoing a process that brings them increasingly close to one another. Among the factors considered are patterns of industries as well as aggregate economies, influences that underlie the degree of convergence that seems to have occurred, and the role that convergence plays in the future of the newly developed nations. Much of the analysis is set in historical perspective.