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Services in Economic Thought
Delaunay, Jean-Claude; Gadrey, Jean
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Description for Services in Economic Thought
Hardback. Surveys and evaluates theoretical contributions on services growth, from the mercantillists and classicists to works beginning with Fisher and Fourasite, and developed by Fuchs, Bell, Baumol, Stanback, and Gershuny. This book discusses questions including: Are services a new engine for economic growth or 'nonproductive' deadweights? Translator(s): Heesterman, Aart. Series: International Studies in the Service Economy. Num Pages: 143 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 387.
Services today account for a major share of employment and national product in the U. S. , with the employment share up from 57 percent immediately post-war to well over 70 percent today (if communications, utilities and transportation are included). This transformation (which is also occurring with varying lags in the othereconomically advanced economies) is driven by a variety of forces : by changes in consumer demand, by the rising demand for health and educational services, by new ways in which businesses are organized and the increasing importance ofcertain functions (e. g. new demands for monitoring, financing, sales promotion, and ... Read more
Services today account for a major share of employment and national product in the U. S. , with the employment share up from 57 percent immediately post-war to well over 70 percent today (if communications, utilities and transportation are included). This transformation (which is also occurring with varying lags in the othereconomically advanced economies) is driven by a variety of forces : by changes in consumer demand, by the rising demand for health and educational services, by new ways in which businesses are organized and the increasing importance ofcertain functions (e. g. new demands for monitoring, financing, sales promotion, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
143
Condition
New
Series
International Studies in the Service Economy
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792392309
SKU
V9780792392309
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