Capital in the American economy : its formation and financing / Simon Smith Kuznets.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuznets, Simon Smith, author.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Studies in capital formation and financing ; 9.

Princeton Legacy Library

Studies in Capital Formation and Financing ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital--United States.

Capital.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (694 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1961.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An examination of long-term trends in capital formation and financing in the U.S., this study is organized primarily around the principal capital-using sectors of the economy: agriculture, mining and manufacturing, public utilities, non-farm residential real estate, and government. The analysis summarizes major trends in real capital formation and financing, and the factors that determined the trends.Originally published in 1961.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Relation of The Directors to The Work and Publications of The National Bureau of Economic Research

National Bureau of Economic Research 1961

Contents

Tables

Figures and Charts

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Capital Formation, Saving, and Financing: Definitions and Relations

Chapter 2. The Meaning of Long-Term Trends

Chapter 3. Trends in Total Capital Formation, 1869-1955

Chapter 4. Trends in the Structure of Capital Formation

Chapter 5. Trends in Financing of Capital Formation: Share of Internal Funds

Chapter 6. Trends in Financing of Capital Formation: Structure of External Financing

Chapter 7. Long Swings in Population Growth, Capital Formation, and National Product

Chapter 8. Long Swings in Financing of Capital Formation

Chapter 9. Summary of Findings

Chapter 10. The Past as Prologue

Appendixes

Appendix A. Annual Estimates, 1919-1955

Appendix B. Estimates for Overlapping Decades, 1869-1953

Appendix C. Annual Estimates and Quinquennial Moving Averages for the Years before 1919

Appendix D. Changes in Net Durable Capital, Sector Estimates, Compared with Commodity Flow Totals of Net Construction and Equipment

Appendix E. Estimates of Population and of the Labor Force: Census and Mid-Censal Dates, and Quinquennial Moving Averages

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691625560

0691625565

9781400879724

1400879728

OCLC:

631211187