ABSTRACT
The existence of homonyms in scientific as well as in everyday language raises no problem when the separate meanings of the same word are sufficiently different to make confusion impossible in the context in which the word is used. In a study on Structural Change by Shozaburo Sakai, a Japanese scholar and follower of the German Historical School, the words “Structure” and “Structural” are used constantly, but the author nowhere succeeds in making clear what is meant. The term structure of production has also been used to denote the distribution of inputs and outputs over time. Apparently a brief term was wanted to replace earlier phrases about the use of round-about methods of production and about different arrangements of productive factors in more capital using and in less capital using production processes. There is a meaning of “structural change” that contrasts it with “policy change,” that is, with some measure or course of action on the part of government.
