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...
| Основен автор: | Fogel, Robert William. |
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| Други автори: | Fogel, Enid M., Guglielmo, Mark., Grotte, Nathaniel. |
| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Серия: |
NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
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Съдържание:
- 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.