The Measurement of Capital.
How is real capital measured by government statistical agencies? How could this measure be improved to correspond more closely to an economist's ideal measure of capital in economic analysis and prediction? It is possible to construct a single, reliable time series for all capital goods, regard...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1980
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| Series: | Studies in income and wealth.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The Measurement of Capital; Contents; Prefatory Note; Introduction; 1. Estimation of Capital Stock in the United States; 2. Economic Depreciation and the Taxation of Structures in United States Manufacturing Industries: An Empirical Analysis; 3. Alternative Measures of Capital and Its Rate of Return in United States Manufacturing; 4. New Books on the Measurement of Capital; 5. Capital Gains and Income: Real Changes in the Value of Capital in the United States, 1946-77; 6. Measurement of Income and Product in the Oil and Gas Mining Industries.
