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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Investment, technical progress, and economic growth -- Mathematical Appendix -- 2 Research and technical progress -- Appendix: The 'neutrality' of technical progress -- 3 Capital intensity and economic growth -- Appendix I: The rate of profit, and relative prices of capital and consumer goods -- Appendix II: The 'Cobb-Douglas' production function -- 4 Economic growth at full employment -- 5 Government policy for growth: I Policy to control the overall rate of investment -- 6 Government policy for growth: II Policy to influence capital intensity -- 7 Growth and the balance of payments -- 8 Conclusion -- Index.

When François Quesnay began to publish on economics there were unmistakable indications that fundamental change was required in France. The finances of the State were in perpetual difficulty, and it had to borrow at higher interest rates than the private sector. Paris was the intellectual capital of Europe, and France was unquestionably one of Europe's great powers, but she had difficulty in simultaneously financing the Army and the Navy, which her international ambitions required. In the repeated wars with Great Britain in what has been described as the Second Hundred Years War (dating from 1688 until 1815) military weaknesses under the Bourbons associated with inadequacies of finance hampered France's efforts to match Britain in the colonization and exploitation of the wealth of North America and India. In the absence of representative institutions such as the British Parliament, the wealthy in France would not consent to the taxation required to establish the French State on a financial foundation commensurate with its political aspirations.