Introduction : a summary view / by R.C.O. Matthews -- Productivity in the 1960s and 1970s / by Ann D. Morgan -- The relationship between pressure of demand and productivity / by G.D.N. Worswick -- Accelerating inflation and the growth of productivity / by A.J. Brown -- Capital accumulation and productivity growth / by J.R. Sargent -- World shocks, macroeconomic response, and the productivity puzzle / by Michael Bruno -- Government intervention as a factor in slower growth in advanced industrial nations /by Victoria Curzon Price -- How much of the slow-down was catch-up? / by Robin Marris -- The productivity slow-down / by Andrew Glyn.