International Economic Transactions: Issues in Measurement and Empirical Research (Volume 55) (National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226351351 ISBN 13: 9780226351353

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1992

Synopsis

How the government arrives at its official economic statistics deeply influences the lives of every American. Social Security payments and even some wages are linked to import prices through official inflation rates; special measures of national product are necessary for valid comparisons of vital social indicators such as relative standards of living and relative poverty. Poor information can result in poor policies. And yet, federal statistics agencies have been crippled by serious budget cuts—and more cuts may lie ahead.

Questioning the quality of current data and analytical procedures, this ambitious volume proposes innovative research designs and methods for data enhancement, and offers new data on trade prices and service transactions for future studies. Leading researchers address the measurement of international trade flows and prices, including the debate over measurement of computer prices and national productivity; compare international levels of manufacturing output; and assess the extent to which the United States has fallen into debt to the rest of the world.

About this title

About the Authors

Peter Hooper is assistant director of the Division of International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is coeditor of Empirical Macroeconomics for Interdependent Economies, named "1988’s Best Book in Social Science" by the Association of American Publishers. J. David Richardson is professor of economics at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.


David Richardson is professor of economic history at the University of Hull and coeditor of Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Anthony Tibbles was formerly Keeper of the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Suzanne Schwarz is professor of history at Liverpool Hope University and author of Slave Captain: The Career of James Irving, soon to be republished by Liverpool University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226351351
• ISBN 13: 9780226351353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 507
• Editor: Hooper Peter, Richardson David