The Measurement of Economic Growth / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1980] ©1980 |
| Year of Publication: | 1980 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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