曼昆《经济学原理》(宏观经济学分册)英文原版

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• Physical capital • Human capital • Natural resources • Technological knowledge
• The factors of production directly determine productivity.
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• In the United States over the past century, average income as measured by real GDP per person has grown by about 2 percent per year.
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Production and Growth
• Productivity refers to the amount of goods and services produced from each unit of labor input.
• A nation’s standard of living is determined largely by the productivity of its workers.
How Productivity Is Determined
• Physical capital per worker is the stock of equipment and structures that are used to produce goods and services.
• Physical capital includes:
• Compounding refers to the accumulation of a growth rate over a period of time.
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Productivity: Its Role and Determinants
• Why Productivity Is So Important
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Production and Growth
• A country’s standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods and services.
• Within a country there are large changes in the standard of living over time.
– Productivity plays a key role in determining living standards for all nations in the world.
– To understand the large differences in living standards across countries, we must focus on the production of goods and services.
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Table 1 The Variety of Growth Experiences
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ECONOMIC GROWTH AROUND THE WORLD
• Living standards, as measured by real GDP per person, vary significantly among nations.
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How Productivity Is Determined
• The inputs used to produce goods and services are called the factors of production.
• The factors of production include:
• Tools used to build or repair automobiles. • Tools used to build furniture. • Office buildings, schools, etc.
• Physical capital is a produced factor of production.
term for the knowledge and skills that workers acquire through education, training, and experience. • Like physical capital, human capital raises a nation’s ability to produce goods and services.
• The poorest countries have average levels of income that have not been seen in the United States for many decades.
• Annual growth rates that seem small become large when compounded for many years.
• It is an input into the production process that in the past was an output from the production process.
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