| List of Figures | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xii |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Growth and Development in History | p. 1 |
| Economic growth and economic development | |
| Growth and welfare | |
| The measurement of economic growth | |
| National income accounting: progress, promise, and pitfalls | |
| The growth of income in modern times | |
| Economic growth before the mid-nineteenth century | |
| The demographic factor and economic growth | |
| Structural change in history | |
| Structural change and sectoral productivity | |
| The 'services' sector | |
| Agriculture in Economic Growth | p. 70 |
| The role of agriculture | |
| The contraction of the agricultural sector | |
| Peasant artisans and peasant traders | |
| Systems of land tenure and inheritance | |
| Agricultural productivity before the industrial age | |
| Agricultural productivity in recent times | |
| The sources of productivity improvement | |
| Agricultural productivity and the growth of the economy | |
| The Role of Capital | p. 115 |
| Investment and Economic Growth | p. 115 |
| The unimportance of capital? | |
| Some conceptual and measurement problems | |
| Capital/output ratios, cross-country and over time | |
| Investment ratios in theory and history | |
| Investment: the key to the 'industrial revolution'? | |
| Savings and investment in pre-industrial societies | |
| The Sources of Capital | p. 157 |
| 'Direct' financing and intermediation in history | |
| The financing of the 'industrial revolution' | |
| Financial intermediation in the industrial era | |
| The sources of savings | |
| 'Involuntary' saving | |
| The Export of Capital | p. 178 |
| The history of capital exports | |
| Capital imports and growth | |
| Capital exports and the lending country | |
| The servicing of external debt | |
| International capital movements and economic growth since 1945 | |
| Foreign Trade and Economic Growth | p. 218 |
| Trade, State and economy in early modern times | |
| Do trade ratios decline? | |
| Inter-country differences in trade ratios | |
| 'Vertical' specialization before World War I | |
| Trade as an 'engine of growth' | |
| 'Enclave' economies | |
| Trade in manufactures to 1913 | |
| The 'engine of growth' reconsidered | |
| Trade-constrained growth before 1913 | |
| The terms of trade of primary producers | |
| New trends in twentieth-century trade | |
| Patterns of trade since World War II | |
| Trade and growth: some concluding remarks | |
| Technology and the 'Residual' | p. 295 |
| The 'residual' in economic growth | |
| Allocation of resources | |
| 'Human capital' and growth | |
| Denison on the 'partitioning' of growth | |
| The role of technological change | |
| The evidence of patent statistics | |
| The technological revolution? | |
| The sources of invention | |
| Private and corporate invention | |
| Invention, innovation and lags in technological advance | |
| Inter-country 'lags' | |
| Technical 'improvements' | |
| Factor proportions and technical change | |
| 'Managerial' improvements and productivity | |
| Pitfalls and possibilities in the historical analysis of productivity change | |
| Some Theories of Growth and Development | p. 378 |
| Patterns and the unique event in history | |
| Some limiting factors in historical generalization | |
| Hollis B. Chenery's 'patterns of development' | |
| Legal and institutional change in economic development | |
| Market imperfections and national economic integration | |
| The trend of income distribution | |
| 'Labour surplus' models | |
| Patterns of industrial growth: Chenery and Hoffmann | |
| 'Stage' theories of growth | |
| 'Take-off' | |
| Uniformity and diversity again | |
| The limitations of economic analysis | |
| Key to References | p. 447 |
| Indexes | p. 452 |
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