U.S. Economic Growth from 1976 to 1986: Prospects, Problems, and Patterns : Studies, Volumen5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 |
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Accounts activity American analysis areas assumptions average basic Bessemer process capital stock consumer consumption costs decade decline demand distribution economic growth effects employment energy entropy environment environmental quality example expenditures factors fertility flow future growth rate household human capital impact important improvements income increase indicators industry inflation innovation inputs investment Joint Economic Committee knowledge labor force leisure less Limits to Growth major materials measures ment Nathan Rosenberg natural resources nomic output percent period personal consumption expenditures pollution abatement population growth present problems productivity programs projections Q-index rate of growth ratio reduced relationship relative result RICHARD BOLLING scenarios sector shifts significant social society sub-model Table technological change tion trends U.S. Congress United violent crime workers zero population growth
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Página 74 - Rose from a hundred hearths, the homes of peace and contentment. Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers — Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics. Neither locks had they to their doors nor bars to their window.s ; But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of the owners ; There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.
Página 68 - Capital is kept in existence from age to age not by preservation, but by perpetual reproduction: every part of it is used and destroyed, generally very soon after it is produced, but those who consume it are employed meanwhile in producing more.
Página 53 - Looking ahead, which would you say is more likely — that in the country as a whole we'll have continuous good times during the next five years or so, or that we will have periods of widespread unemployment or depression, or what?
Página 38 - This book, being about work, is by its very nature, about violence — to the spirit as well as to the body. It is about ulcers as well as accidents, about shouting matches as well as fistfights, about nervous breakdowns as well as kicking the dog around. It is above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Página 47 - This picture of a hard core of unemployed workers who are not able to find jobs is an inaccurate description of our economy and a misleading basis for policy. A more accurate description is an active labor market in which almost everyone who is out of work can find his usual type of job in a relatively short time. The problem is not that these jobs are unavailable but that they are unattractive.
Página 39 - I'm caged," says the bank teller, and echoes the hotel clerk. "I'ma mule," says the steelworker. "A monkey can do what I do," says the receptionist. "I'm less than a farm implement," says the migrant worker "I'm an object,
Página 115 - A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1956.
Página 10 - ... without the beauty and the terror, the mystery, and ecstasy so rightfully his, man is a vagrant in space, desperate for the inhuman meaninglessness which has opened about him, and with his every step becoming less than man. Peace with the earth is the first peace. (Henry Beston, Herbs and the Earth) We seem to be pouring into the environmental quality bottle all our individual and social yearnings for peace, stability, and quiet; for social justice in the world; and for more meaningful lives....
Página 27 - Many of the benefits of increased productivity flowing from an Innovation are captured in industries other than the one in which the innovation was made.
Página 17 - PRESENTED, elaborated and tested in this book can be summarized with the general statement that 200 years ago almost everywhere human beings were comparatively few, poor and at the mercy of the forces of nature, and 200 years from now, we expect, almost everywhere they will be numerous, rich and in control of the forces of nature.