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The Measure of Economies : Measuring Productivity in an Age of Technological Change / edited by Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Louise Sheiner.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial productivity--Measurement.
- Industrial productivity.
- Economic history--21st century.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "How do we measure economic productivity if not by GDP? Traditional economic methods, including GDP, tell us that productivity has slowed dramatically in the US and other developed economies over the last two decades. This has led to calls for all manner of government interventions, including revised tax policies and the strengthening of antitrust measures to increase competition. But are our twentieth-century economic methods actually measuring our twenty-first-century productivity? The Measure of Economies offers a practical overview of measuring productivity in economics in a world where GDP is no longer a catch-all. With chapters authored by leading economic experts, it is at once an intervention against the insufficiency of old practices and a cutting-edge guide to their alternatives. It is an essential resource for social scientists and researchers for a century of change in the output of nations"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Editors' Introduction / Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Louise Sheiner
- GDP as a measure of economic well-being / Karen Dynan, Louise Sheiner
- The measurement of output, prices, and productivity : what's changed since the Boskin Commission / Brent R. Moulton
- Intangible investment : what it is and why it matters / Carol Corrado
- Productivity management : new goods, variety, and quality change / Diane Coyle
- The digital economy and productivity / David M. Byrne
- Measuring prices and productivity in the health care sector / Louise Sheiner, David M. Cutler
- Productivity and the environmental accounts / Nicholas Z. Muller
- Modernizing measurement of productivity with nonstandard data : opportunities, challenges and progress / Erica L. Groshen, Michael W. Horrigan, Christopher Kurz.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780226836348
- 0226836347
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