The Measurement of Economic Growth / / Dan Usher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Usher, Dan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 1980
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction --; Part I: Theory --; 2. Consumption: The Welfare of the Representative Consumer --; 3. Consumption: The Welfare of the Community --; 4. Consumption: The Productive Capacity of the Economy --; 5. Investment --; 6. Depreciation --; 7. Imputations --; 8. Quantity and Quality --; 9. Index Numbers --; Part II: Applications --; 10. Measuring Real Consumption from Quantity Data --; 11. An Imputation for Changes in Life Expectancy --; 12. No Technical Change, No Growth --; 13. Alternative Measures of the Rate of Economic Growth in Canada, 1926 to 1974 --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231886338; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/ushe91960
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dan Usher.

Presents a study of the concept and measurement of economic growth with emphasis on the problem of how to design a statistic to conform as closely as the data allow to the usage of the term in economic history and policy.