"The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income."

"Distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return, and between t…"

"we need far more empirical study than we have had so far of the universe of inventors; any finding concerning invento…"

"The central theme of this paper is the character and causes of long-term changes in the personal distribution of inco…"

"An invariable accompaniment of growth in developed countries is the shift away from agriculture, a process usually re…"

"The rural and urban populations does not necessarily drift downward in the process of economic growth: indeed, there …"

"The very fact that after a while, an increasing proportion of the urban population was "native," i.e., born in cities…"

"The paper is perhaps 5 per cent empirical information and 95 per cent speculation, some of it possibly tainted by wis…"

"[The principal characteristic of this economic epoch is] a sustained increase in per capita or per worker product, mo…"

"The inescapable conclusion is that the direct contribution of man-hours and capital accumulation would hardly account…"