As well as providing a history of economic statistics, the book includes contributions by economists from a number of countries, applying economic statistics to the past and to current economic issues.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Colin Clark; Frontispiece - Preface; the editors - Notes on the Contributors - Colin Clark; H. W. Arndt - PART 1 NATIONAL INCOME AND OUTLAY - The Development of Economic Statistics as an Influence on Theory and Policy; A. Cairncross - Progress in Balancing the National Accounts; R. Stone - Statistical Perspectives and Economic Stability; D. Ironmonger - Econometric Modelling of Private Consumption Using OECD National Accounts; T. Van Hoa - Distributed Control of Econometric Data Bases and Models; I. Sugiura - PART 2 THE CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS - The Use of Statistics for Policy Advising: Colin Clark in Queensland, 1938-52; G. Kenwood - Twenty-Five Per Cent Forty Years On; J. O. N. Perkins & T. Van Hoa - Countertrade: Solution or Problem; D. T. Healey - Global Monetarism; L. R. Klein - Population Growth and Economic Development; A. P. Thirlwall - Another Non-Econometrician's Lament; J. O. N. Perkins - Index
