The origins of US total factor productivity growth in the golden age

Cliometrica

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-90

  Field, Alexander J ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing; Productivity; TFP; Transportation; US macroeconomic history

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248670421     PISSN: 18632505     EISSN: 18632513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11698-007-0006-4     Document Type: Article

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