Political Arithmetic : Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics /

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We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn't the case-economists simply didn't have the necessary information or statistical tools to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Fogel, Robert William (Autor), Fogel, Enid M. (Autor), Guglielmo, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development
Temas:
Economics > Research > United States.
National income > United States > Accounting > History > 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
economics, simon kuznets, national bureau of economic research, gnp, economy, progressive era, activism, government, public policy, hoover, world war 1, harding, commerce secretary, business cycles, production, universal basic income, great depression, accounting, history, politics, nonfiction, academic economists, forecasts.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Amazing Twentieth Century
  • 1. The Rise of Academic Economists before World War I
  • 2. The Early History of the NBER
  • 3. The Emergence of National Income Accounting as a Tool of Economic Policy
  • 4. The Use of National Income Accounting to Study Comparative Economic Growth
  • 5. The Scientifi c Methods of Simon Kuznets
  • 6. Further Aspects of the Legacy of Simon Kuznets
  • 7. The Quarter Century since the Death of Simon Kuznets
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Index

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