TY - BOOK AU - Usher,Dan TI - The Measurement of Economic Growth SN - 9780231919609 PY - 1980///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/ushe91960 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231886338 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231886338.jpg ER -