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Swint, Kenneth James.

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Conceptualizing and measuring capital in national economic accounts: History and analysis.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Conceptualizing and measuring capital in national economic accounts: History and analysis./
Author:	Swint, Kenneth James.
Description:	547 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-06, Section: A, page: 1758.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International50-06A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8921360

Conceptualizing and measuring capital in national economic accounts: History and analysis.
Swint, Kenneth James.

Conceptualizing and measuring capital in national economic accounts: History and analysis. - 547 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-06, Section: A, page: 1758.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 1989.

The purpose of the study is to: (1) demonstrate that the national accounts concept of capital is a hybrid stemming from several different influences; (2) argue that some of those influences, and the resulting capital concept, are not as relevant as when the accounts were constructed and that today's economic situation is not well served by the existing capital estimates; and, (3) demonstrate that the concept and measurement of capital have been heavily influenced by business accounting concepts at the expense of economic concepts.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

Conceptualizing and measuring capital in national economic accounts: History and analysis.
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520 $a The purpose of the study is to: (1) demonstrate that the national accounts concept of capital is a hybrid stemming from several different influences; (2) argue that some of those influences, and the resulting capital concept, are not as relevant as when the accounts were constructed and that today's economic situation is not well served by the existing capital estimates; and, (3) demonstrate that the concept and measurement of capital have been heavily influenced by business accounting concepts at the expense of economic concepts.
520 $a The history of the capital concept begins with its classical period definition as the productive part of material wealth. This was followed by both a theoretical and an empirical broadening to include all durable goods. The empirical broadening served the needs of business cycle analysis; however, the needs of war planning, the advent of Keynesian analysis and the adoption of the double-entry accounting framework had a re-narrowing effect and led to highly aggregated capital estimates.
520 $a The history of the measurement of capital formation focuses on the development of the commodity flow method versus the capital expenditure survey method. The former method is used exclusively in the United States National Income and Product Accounts but only the latter provides information on the industrial destination of capital formation. This study argues that the two methods can and must be made consistent.
520 $a The history of the development of capital stock measures using the perpetual inventory method provides the strongest evidence that a heavy reliance on business accounting concepts, particularly regarding asset lives and capital consumption, can lead to inaccurate estimates of the national capital stock.
520 $a This history of capital in national accounting is based predominantly on the writings of those who participated in the development of modern national income and product accounts and in the development of estimates of national capital and wealth stocks. The analysis is from the perspective of (1) non-government national economic accountants who have been critical of Department of Commerce decisions regarding capital; and (2) the information needs of today's economic environment as contrasted with the environment existing during the years when the accounts were first developed.
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