Name: Measuring the Wealth of Nations Paperback: The Political Economy of National Accounts (in English)
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Author: Anwar M. Shaikh
ISBN: 9780521564793

portada Measuring the Wealth of Nations Paperback: The Political Economy of National Accounts (in English)

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 (in English)"

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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Es doctor en economía por la Universidad de Columbia y desde 1972 es profesor de economía en la Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science de la New School for Social Research, Nueva York. Es editor asociado de la revista The Cambridge Journal of Economics y fue miembro distinguido del Macro Modeling Team para el Levy Economics Institute of Bard College desde el año 2000 hasta 2005. En 2014 fue galardonado con el NordSud International Prize for Literature and Science por la Fondazione Pescarabruzzo de Italia. Es autor de numerosos artículos y capítulos de libros. Entre sus obras se encuentran Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade (2007) y Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts (en coautoría con E. Ahmet Tonak, 1996). Capitalismo es su obra más importante y reconocida a nivel mundial.

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