Political arithmetic : Simon Kuznets and the empirical tradition in economics /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fogel, Robert William
Otros Autores: Fogel, Enid M., Guglielmo, Mark, Grotte, Nathaniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Colección:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Temas:
Kuznets, Simon, > 1901-1985 > Influence.
Kuznets, Simon, > 1901-1985
National Bureau of Economic Research.
National Bureau of Economic Research
1900-1999
Economics > Research > United States.
National income > United States > Accounting > History > 20th century.
Économie politique > Recherche > États-Unis.
Comptabilité nationale > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Economics > Research
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
National income > Accounting
Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the amazing twentieth century
  • The rise of academic economists before World War I
  • The early history of the NBER
  • The emergence of national income accounting as a tool of economic policy
  • The use of national income accounting to study comparative economic growth
  • The scientific methods of Simon Kuznets
  • Further aspects of the legacy of Simon Kuznets
  • The quarter century since the death of Simon Kuznets.

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