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As a rule, economic growth is not measured against production capacity, which is very difficult to estimate, but against national production. In this chapter, we define economic growth as a sustained increase in the net real national product (or income) per inhabitant.
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van Meerhaeghe, M.A.G. (1986). The Theory of Economic Growth. In: Economic Theory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1365-8_7
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