The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth.

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There is probably no concept other than saving for which U.S. official agencies issue annual estimates that differ by more than a third, as they have done for net household saving, or for which reputable scholars claim that the correct measure is close to ten times the officially published one. Yet...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lipsey, Robert E.
Other Authors: Tice, Helen Stone
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Series:Studies in income and wealth.
Subjects:
Saving and investment.
Wealth.
Richesse.
wealth.
Saving and investment
Wealth
saving, investment, wealth, economics, economy, poverty, banking imputation, corporate, personal, nipa, government, capital, inequality, pensions, aging, flow of funds, latin america, estimates, national accounts, banks, finance, affluent, inheritance, gifts, intergenerational transfer, net worth, households, bias, accuracy, nonfiction.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth; Contents; Prefatory Note; Introduction; 1. Present NIPA Saving Measures: Their Characteristics and Limitations; 2. Measuring Household Saving: Recent Experience from the Flow-of-Funds Perspective; 3. Flow-of-Funds and National Income and Product Account Savings Estimates in Latin America; 4. Aggregate U.S. Private Saving: Conceptual Measures; 5. The Accumulation of Human and Nonhuman Capital, 1948-84; 6. Government Saving, Capital Formation, and Wealth in the United States, 1947-85.

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