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Measuring economic sustainability and progress / [edited by] Dale W. Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld, and Paul Schreyer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in income and wealth ; v 72.Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.Description: xi, 659 p. : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226121338 (cloth : alkaline paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.927 23 C748
Contents:
Introduction / Dale W. Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld, and Paul Schreyer -- 1. Economic measurement / Ben S. Bernanke -- 2. Expanded measurement of economic activity : progress and prospects / Katharine G. Abraham -- 3. Measuring social welfare in the U.S. national accounts / Dale W. Jorgenson and Daniel T. Slesnick -- 4. Household production, leisure and living standards / Paul Schreyer and W. Erwin Diewert -- 5. Representing consumption and saving without a representative consumer / Christopher D. Carroll -- 6. Integration of micro and macro data on consumer income and expenditures / Clinton P. McCully -- 7. Trends in the distribution of household income, 1979-2010 / Edward Harris and Frank Sammartino -- 8. Accounting for the distribution of income in the U.S. national accounts / Dennis Fixler and David S. Johnson -- 9. Analysis of wealth using micro and macro data : a comparison of the survey of consumer finances and flow of funds accounts / Alice M. Henriques and Joanne W. Hsu -- 10. The integrated macroeconomic accounts of the United States / Marco Cagetti, Elizabeth Ball Holmquist, Lisa Lynn, Susan Hume McIntosh, and David Wasshausen -- 11. A prototype BEA/BLS industry-level production account for the United States / Susan Fleck, Steven Rosenthal, Matthew Russell, Erich H. Strassner, Lisa Usher -- 12. Toward the development of sectoral financial positions and flows in a from-whom-to-whom framework / Manik Shrestha -- 13. Towards the measurement of net economic welfare : air pollution damage in the U.S.national accounts: 2002, 2005, 2008 / Nicholas Z. Muller -- 14. Human capital accounting in the United States : context, measurement, and application / Michael S. Christian -- 15. Measuring the stock of human capital for international and inter-temporal comparisons / Gang Liu -- 16. Developing a framework for decomposing medical-care expenditure growth : exploring issues of representativeness / Abe Dunn, Eli Liebman, and Adam Hale Shapiro -- 17. Experimental measures of output and productivity in the Canadian hospital sector, 2002 to 2010 / Wulong Gu and Stephane Morin -- 18. Innovation accounting / Carol A. Corrado and Charles R. Hulten -- Panel remarks / J. Steven Landefeld, Shirin Ahmed, John W. Ruser, Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz-- Contributors-- Author index-- Subject index.
Summary: This book explores collaborative solutions between academics, policy researchers, and official statisticians to economic measurement challenges.
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Introduction / Dale W. Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld, and Paul Schreyer --
1. Economic measurement / Ben S. Bernanke --
2. Expanded measurement of economic activity : progress and prospects / Katharine G. Abraham --
3. Measuring social welfare in the U.S. national accounts / Dale W. Jorgenson and Daniel T. Slesnick --
4. Household production, leisure and living standards / Paul Schreyer and W. Erwin Diewert --
5. Representing consumption and saving without a representative consumer / Christopher D. Carroll --
6. Integration of micro and macro data on consumer income and expenditures / Clinton P. McCully --
7. Trends in the distribution of household income, 1979-2010 / Edward Harris and Frank Sammartino --
8. Accounting for the distribution of income in the U.S. national accounts / Dennis Fixler and David S. Johnson --
9. Analysis of wealth using micro and macro data : a comparison of the survey of consumer finances and flow of funds accounts / Alice M. Henriques and Joanne W. Hsu --
10. The integrated macroeconomic accounts of the United States / Marco Cagetti, Elizabeth Ball Holmquist, Lisa Lynn, Susan Hume McIntosh, and David Wasshausen --
11. A prototype BEA/BLS industry-level production account for the United States / Susan Fleck, Steven Rosenthal, Matthew Russell, Erich H. Strassner, Lisa Usher --
12. Toward the development of sectoral financial positions and flows in a from-whom-to-whom framework / Manik Shrestha --
13. Towards the measurement of net economic welfare : air pollution damage in the U.S.national accounts: 2002, 2005, 2008 / Nicholas Z. Muller --
14. Human capital accounting in the United States : context, measurement, and application / Michael S. Christian --
15. Measuring the stock of human capital for international and inter-temporal comparisons / Gang Liu --
16. Developing a framework for decomposing medical-care expenditure growth : exploring issues of representativeness / Abe Dunn, Eli Liebman, and Adam Hale Shapiro --
17. Experimental measures of output and productivity in the Canadian hospital sector, 2002 to 2010 / Wulong Gu and Stephane Morin --
18. Innovation accounting / Carol A. Corrado and Charles R. Hulten --
Panel remarks / J. Steven Landefeld, Shirin Ahmed, John W. Ruser, Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz--
Contributors--
Author index--
Subject index.

This book explores collaborative solutions between academics, policy researchers, and official statisticians to economic measurement challenges.

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