Name: Measuring the Wealth of Nations Paperback: The Political Economy of National Accounts
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Author: Shaikh, Anwar M. ; Tonak, E. Ahmet
ISBN: 9780521564793

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Measuring the Wealth of Nations Paperback: The Political Economy of National Accounts

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anwar M. Shaikh

E. Ahmet Tonak

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

1996

Language

English

Pages

404

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.55 kg.

ISBN

0521564794

ISBN13

9780521564793

Synopsis "Measuring the Wealth of Nations Paperback: The Political Economy of National Accounts "

This book provides an alternate foundation for the measurement of the production of nations, and applies it to the U.S. economy for the postwar period. The patterns that result are significantly different from those derived within conventional systems of national accounts. Conventional national accounts seriously distort basic economic aggregates, because they classify military, bureaucratic and financial activities as the creation of new wealth, when in fact they should be classified as forms of social consumption that, like personal consumption, actually use up social wealth in the performance of their functions.

Anwar M. Shaikh

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He holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University and has been a professor of economics at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research, New York, since 1972. He is an associate editor of The Cambridge Journal of Economics and was a distinguished member of the Macro Modeling Team for the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College from 2000 to 2005. In 2014, he was awarded the NordSud International Prize for Literature and Science by the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo in Italy. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters. His works include Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade (2007) and Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts (co-authored with E. Ahmet Tonak, 1996). Capitalism is his most important and globally recognized work.

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