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Author Berndt, Ernst R

Title Fifty Years of Economic Measurement : the Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (468 pages)
Series National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth
Studies in income and wealth.
Contents Fifty Years of Economic Measurement: The Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth; Contents; Prefatory Note; Introduction; 1. The Conference on Research in Income and Wealth: The Early Years; 2. Luncheon in Honor of Individuals and Institutions Participating in the First Income and Wealth Conference (December 1936/January 1937); 3. Productivity and Economic Growth; 4. The Measurement of Capital; 5. Issues in the Measurement and Interpretation of Saving and Wealth; 6. Hedonic Price Indexes and the Measurement of Capital and Productivity: Some Historical Reflections
Summary This volume contains papers presented at a conference in May 1988 in Washington, D.C., commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW). The call for papers emphasized assessments of broad topics in economic measurement, both conceptual and pragmatic. The organizers desired (and succeeded in obtaining) a mix of papers that, first, illustrate the range of measurement issues that economics as a science must confront and, second, mark major milestones of CRIW accomplishment. The papers concern prices and output (Griliche
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Subject Conference on Research in Income and Wealth -- Congresses
SUBJECT Conference on Research in Income and Wealth fast
Subject Income -- Congresses
Saving and investment -- Congresses
Wealth -- Congresses
Income
Saving and investment
Wealth
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Triplett, Jack E
ISBN 9780226044316
0226044319