Introduction: structural analysis and the process of economic development / Jonas Ljungberg -- How it all began : on structural periods / Olle Krantz and Carl-Axel Nilsson -- Identifying and modelling cycles and long waves in economic time series / Fredrik N.G. Andersson -- Development blocks...

One theme of this volume is whether the complementarity between technology and human capital is a recent phenomenon, or whether it can be traced through history. Different approaches to human capital as well as technology are applied, and besides historical surveys are total factor productivity...