Author: National Bureau of Economic Research
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Office of Coal Research
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Office of Water Resources Research
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lynn (Mass.). Public Schools
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 888
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Council on Educational Research
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Columbia University. Office of the President
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert William Fogel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0226256618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t have the necessary information or statistical tools to understand the ever more complicated modern economy. With Political Arithmetic, Nobel Prize–winning economist Robert Fogel and his collaborators tell the story of economist Simon Kuznets, the founding of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the creation of the concept of GNP, which for the first time enabled us to measure the performance of entire economies. The book weaves together the many strands of political and economic thought and historical pressures that together created the demand for more detailed economic thinking—Progressive-era hopes for activist government, the production demands of World War I, Herbert Hoover’s interest in business cycles as President Harding’s commerce secretary, and the catastrophic economic failures of the Great Depression—and shows how, through trial and error, measurement and analysis, economists such as Kuznets rose to the occasion and in the process built a discipline whose knowledge could be put to practical use in everyday decision-making. The product of a lifetime of studying the workings of economies and skillfully employing the tools of economics, Political Arithmetic is simultaneously a history of a key period of economic thought and a testament to the power of applied ideas.
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →