Reconstructing The Past: The Measurement Of Aggregate Product

Fenoaltea, Stefano (2020): Reconstructing The Past: The Measurement Of Aggregate Product.

Abstract

This paper summarizes the author’s considerations on the measurement of a national economy’s historical aggregate product. Given the sources from which we can start, and the objective we wish to reach, the proper path follows logically; the extant corpus of historical national accounts seems to follow a very different path, uninformed by due reflection.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: measurement, historical national accounts
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General > C13 - Estimation: General; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts; N - Economic History > N0 - General > N01 - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods

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