National Income and Economic Progress

As well as providing a history of economic statistics, the book includes contributions by economists from a number of countries, applying economic statistics to the past and to current economic issues.

Inhalt
Colin Clark; Frontispiece - Preface; the editors - Notes on the Contributors - Colin Clark; H.W.Arndt - PART 1 NATIONAL INCOME AND OUTLAY - The Development of Economic Statistics as an Influence on Theory and Policy; A.Cairncross - Progress in Balancing the National Accounts; R.Stone - Statistical Perspectives and Economic Stability; D.Ironmonger - Econometric Modelling of Private Consumption Using OECD National Accounts; T.Van Hoa - Distributed Control of Econometric Data Bases and Models; I.Sugiura - PART 2 THE CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS - The Use of Statistics for Policy Advising: Colin Clark in Queensland, 1938-52; G.Kenwood - Twenty-Five Per Cent Forty Years On; J.O.N.Perkins & T.Van Hoa - Countertrade: Solution or Problem; D.T.Healey - Global Monetarism; L.R.Klein - Population Growth and Economic Development; A.P.Thirlwall - Another Non-Econometrician's Lament; J.O.N.Perkins - Index