International & Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output & Prices: Volume 61 (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth) - Hardcover

Heston, Alan

 
9780226331102: International & Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output & Prices: Volume 61 (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth)

Synopsis

This work includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP programme on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this volume explore the programmes on interspatial comparisons within the United States. There are also theoretical papers on how interspatial comparisons should be made and several examples of uses of such comparisons.

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About the Author

Robert E. Lipsey is professor of economics at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also a research associate of the NBER and director of its New York office. Helen Stone Tice is an assistant to the director at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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