TY - BOOK AU - Fogel,Robert William AU - Fogel,Enid M. AU - Guglielmo,Mark AU - Grotte,Nathaniel TI - Political arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the empirical tradition in economics T2 - NBER series on long-term factors in economic development SN - 9780226256610 (cloth : alkaline paper) AV - HC110.I5 F64 2013 U1 - 339.3/2 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Kuznets, Simon, KW - National Bureau of Economic Research KW - Economics KW - Research KW - United States KW - National income KW - Accounting KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - 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 ER -