| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w26895
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 26895
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| Off to a Good Start: The NBER and the Measurement of National Income |
| Hugh Rockoff
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| 发表日期 | 2020-03-30
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The creation of the National Bureau of Economic Research was a response to the bitter controversies over the distribution of income that roiled the United States during the Progressive Era. Thanks to Malcolm Rorty, a business economist, and Nahum I. Stone, an independent socialist economist, a “Committee on the Distribution of Income” was created; what might be considered the first name of the Bureau. Funding was secured, the Bureau was chartered in 1920, and Wesley Mitchell was appointed the director of research. The Bureau’s first publication, Income in the United States, its Amount and Distribution was widely hailed as a major contribution. Further estimates of national income and its distribution for the 1920s were made by Willford King and Lillian Epstein. The Great Depression led to legislation requiring federal government estimates. Simon Kuznets was seconded from the Bureau to the Commerce Department where he led the team that produced the first federal estimates and established the unit for producing updates. The early investigators at the Bureau proved to be masters of combining sources of data to produce credible estimates. The result was estimates that still underlie our understanding of the growth and fluctuations of the American Economy. |
| 主题 | Other
; History of Economic Thought
; History
; Macroeconomic History
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26895
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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/584568
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