Capital in the American Economy : : Its Formation and Financing / / Simon Smith Kuznets.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Kuznets, Simon Smith,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1923
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (696 p.)

An examination of long-term trends in capital formation and financing in the U.S., this study is organized primarily around the principal capital-using sectors of the economy: agriculture, mining and manufacturing, public utilities, non-farm residential real estate, and government. The analysis summarizes major trends in real capital formation and financing, and the factors that determined the trends.Originally published in 1961.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Relation of The Directors to The Work and Publications of The National Bureau of Economic Research -- National Bureau of Economic Research 1961 -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures and Charts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Capital Formation, Saving, and Financing: Definitions and Relations -- Chapter 2. The Meaning of Long-Term Trends -- Chapter 3. Trends in Total Capital Formation, 1869-1955 -- Chapter 4. Trends in the Structure of Capital Formation -- Chapter 5. Trends in Financing of Capital Formation: Share of Internal Funds -- Chapter 6. Trends in Financing of Capital Formation: Structure of External Financing -- Chapter 7. Long Swings in Population Growth, Capital Formation, and National Product -- Chapter 8. Long Swings in Financing of Capital Formation -- Chapter 9. Summary of Findings -- Chapter 10. The Past as Prologue -- Appendixes -- Appendix A. Annual Estimates, 1919-1955 -- Appendix B. Estimates for Overlapping Decades, 1869-1953 -- Appendix C. Annual Estimates and Quinquennial Moving Averages for the Years before 1919 -- Appendix D. Changes in Net Durable Capital, Sector Estimates, Compared with Commodity Flow Totals of Net Construction and Equipment -- Appendix E. Estimates of Population and of the Labor Force: Census and Mid-Censal Dates, and Quinquennial Moving Averages -- Index