Measuring the UK Economy (Conference Paper)

Freeman, Alan (1999): Measuring the UK Economy (Conference Paper).

Abstract

This paper was presented to the annual conference of Radical Statistics Journal. It develops the ideas in Freeman (1991) concerning the construction of national accounts in value terms. It was the immediate precursor of Freeman (1999), my chapter in Dorling (2001).

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Institution: The University of Greenwich
• Language: English
• Keywords: Value; National Accounts; Quantification; MELT; MEL; Money; Labour; Marx; TSSI; Temporalism
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925 > B12 - Classical (includes Adam Smith); B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925 > B14 - Socialist ; Marxist; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts

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