Over the past fifty years BPEA 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 BPEA 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.

在过去的 50 年中，BPEA的作者撰写了大量关于美国国内生产力增长和富国和穷国增长差异的国际来源的文章。本文总结和评估了五篇关于美国生产力增长的BPEA论文，这些论文主要关注 1965 年后增长放缓和 1995 年后增长复苏的根源。然后回顾了三篇关于国际增长差异的论文，强调了根据经验确定增长来源的困难，以及地理和人口等结构性因素与政策和政府问题（包括法律制度、产权和缺乏经济）在增长结果中的竞争作用。腐败。