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After the devastation of war, the quarter century or so that followed was for the advanced capitalist countries a period of exceptional economic dynamism, innovation and structural change. Moreover by historical standards the progress was extremely smooth, with recessions representing only small dents or mere decelerations in the upward path of output (Table 4.3). The contrast with the depressed 1930s could scarcely have been greater.
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© 1985 Michael Bleaney
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Bleaney, M. (1985). The Post-War Boom. In: The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Economics. Radical Economics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16666-4_4
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