| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w25431
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 25431
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| On the Controversies behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics |
| Hugh Rockoff
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| 发表日期 | 2019-01-14
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Although attempts to measure trends in prices, output, and employment can be traced back for centuries, in the main the origins of the U.S. federal statistics are to be found in bitter debates over economic policy, ultimately debates over the distribution of income, at the end of the nineteenth century and during the world wars and Great Depression. Participants in those debates hoped that statistics that were widely accepted as nonpolitical and accurate would prove that their grievances were just and provide support for the policies they advocated. Economists – including luminaries such as Irving Fisher, Wesley C. Mitchell, and Simon Kuznets – responded by developing the methodology for computing index numbers and estimates of national income. Initially, individuals and private organizations provided these statistics, but by the end of WWII the federal government had taken over the role. Here I briefly describe the cases of prices, GDP, and unemployment. |
| 主题 | Other
; General, Teaching
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25431
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583105
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Hugh Rockoff. On the Controversies behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics. 2019.
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