Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress

Dale W. Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld, Paul Schreyer, Dale W. Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld, Paul Schreyer

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780226121475
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Series Page
• National Bureau of Economic Research
• Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research
• Prefatory Note
• Introduction
• 1. Economic Measurement
• I. Expanded Measures of Economic Sustainability and Welfare: Retrospect and Prospect
• II. Reconciling Administrative and Survey Data on the Distribution of Income and Wealth
• III. Integrated Economic Accounts
• IV. Measuring Sustainability: The Environment, Human Capital, Health, and Innovation
• Panel Remarks
• Notes
• Contributors
• Author Index
• Subject Index