Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress / J. Steven Landefeld, Dale W. Jorgenson, Paul Schreyer.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Jorgenson, Dale W., Editor.

Landefeld, J. Steven, Editor.

Schreyer, Paul, Editor.

National Bureau of Economic Research, associated with work.

Conference Name:

Measuring Economic Sustainability in Progress (Conference) (2012 : Cambridge, Mass.), creator.

Series:

Studies in income and wealth ; 72.

National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Measurement--Congresses.

Economics.

Economics--Statistical methods--Congresses.

Economic development--Measurement--Congresses.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the Great Depression, researchers and statisticians have recognized the need for more extensive methods for measuring economic growth and sustainability. The recent recession renewed commitments to closing long-standing gaps in economic measurement, including those related to sustainability and well-being. The latest in the NBER's influential Studies in Income and Wealth series, which has played a key role in the development of national account statistics in the United States and other nations, this volume explores collaborative solutions between academics, policy researchers, and official statisticians to some of today's most important economic measurement challenges. Contributors to this volume extend past research on the integration and extension of national accounts to establish an even more comprehensive understanding of the distribution of economic growth and its impact on well-being, including health, human capital, and the environment. The research contributions assess, among other topics, specific conceptual and empirical proposals for extending national accounts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prefatory Note

Introduction

1. Economic Measurement

2. Expanded Measurement of Economic Activity

3. Measuring Social Welfare in the US National Accounts

4. Household Production, Leisure, and Living Standards

5. Representing Consumption and Saving without a Representative Consumer

6. Integration of Micro- and Macrodata on Consumer Income and Expenditures

7. Trends in the Distribution of Household Income, 1979-2010

8. Accounting for the Distribution of Income in the US National Accounts

9. Analysis of Wealth Using Micro- and Macrodata

10. The Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts of the United States

11. A Prototype BEA / BLS Industry-Level Production Account for the United States

12. Toward the Development of Sectoral Financial Positions and Flows in a From- Whom- to- Whom Framework

IV. Measuring Sustainability: The Environment, Human Capital, Health, and Innovation

13. Toward the Measurement of Net Economic Welfare

14. Human Capital Accounting in the United States

15. Measuring the Stock of Human Capital for International and Intertemporal Comparisons

16. Developing a Framework for Decomposing Medical- Care Expenditure Growth

17. Experimental Measures of Output and Productivity in the Canadian Hospital Sector, 2002 to 2010

18. Innovation Accounting

Panel Remarks

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

"This volume contains revised versions of most of the papers and discussions presented at the meeting of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth entitled "Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress," held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 6-8, 2012"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-226-12147-X

OCLC:

1125188434