Political arithmetic : Simon Kuznets and the empirical tradition in economics /
Fogel, Robert William.
Political arithmetic : Simon Kuznets and the empirical tradition in economics / Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 - xiii, 148 pages ; 24 cm. - NBER series on long-term factors in economic development . - NBER series on long-term factors in economic development. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-133) and index.
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.
9780226256610 (cloth : alkaline paper)
2012031749
Kuznets, Simon, 1901-1985 --Influence.
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Economics--Research--United States.
National income--Accounting--History--United States--20th century.
HC110.I5 / F64 2013
339.3/2
Political arithmetic : Simon Kuznets and the empirical tradition in economics / Robert William Fogel, Enid M. Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 - xiii, 148 pages ; 24 cm. - NBER series on long-term factors in economic development . - NBER series on long-term factors in economic development. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-133) and index.
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.
9780226256610 (cloth : alkaline paper)
2012031749
Kuznets, Simon, 1901-1985 --Influence.
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Economics--Research--United States.
National income--Accounting--History--United States--20th century.
HC110.I5 / F64 2013
339.3/2