HISTORY AND ACTUALITY REGARDING THE "WAVES" OF THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS

The paper History and actuality regarding the "waves" of the economic progress goes on the line of economic growth and development aiming to define the interdependent factors which cause and maintain it. The development’s sinuous undertaking is always subject to changes, offering new interpretations of the factors that cause it. In this way, we will stop at a number of studies that have seen the economic development as a succession of "waves" of change. The most representative ones belong to A. Toffler and Maynard and Mehrtens.