Slow Growth and the Service Economy [Hardcover]

The slow-down in economic growth and the rise in unemployment in the 1970s revived some of the uncertainties experienced by industrialized economies during the inter-war period. After more than a decade of stagnation, the period of sustained growth in the thirty years following the Second World War now seems increasingly to have been an exceptional phase in an overall development process still dominated by wide fluctuations in economic growth rates.

Slow Growth and the Service Economyexamines what it means to live in a period of economic recession and analyses social patterns in response to the slowing down of financial and economic growth.

Pascal Petitteaches economics at the University of Paris XIII, France.

1. Services: Problem or Solution?
2. Growth and the Division of Labour by Sector
3. Stagnation and De-industrialization: The Developed Countries
4. The Demand for Services: The Extension of Foreign Markets
5. The Domestic Demand for Services
6. Developments in the Production of Services
Appendices I-IX
Bibliography
Index