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The Measurement of Economic Growth / Dan Usher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231919609
  • 9780231886338
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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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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