National Accounting and Economic Policy

The late Nancy D. Ruggles, formerly Senior Research Economist, Institute for Economic and Social Policy Studies, Yale University, US and the late Richard Ruggles, formerly Stanley Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University, US

'Richard Ruggles, often assisted by Nancy Ruggles, has been a major contributor to national income accounting and to the empirical study of microeconomics and macroeconomics using that and other data. He has focused on the quantitative analysis of actual economic systems in a discipline increasingly preoccupied with abstract pure conceptual models. Like the work of Simon Kuznets and others, Ruggles's analyses encompass an unusually wide range of variables.'

• Contents: Part I: Evolution and Concepts of National Accounting 1. National Income Accounting and its Relation to Economic Policy 2. Concepts of Real Capital Stock and Services 3. The Evolution and Present State of National Economic Accounting 4. The Role of the National Accounts in the Statistical System 5. The Treatment of Pensions and Insurance in National Accounts 6. National Income Accounting Concepts and Measurement: Economic Theory and Practice 7. The Value Added of National Accounting Part II: United States National Accounts 8. The Evolution of National Accounts and the National Data Base 9. The United States National Income Accounts, 1947–77: Their Conceptual Basis and Evolution 10. Integrated Economic Accounts for the United States, 1947–80 11. Integrated Economic Accounts: Reply Part III: United Nations System of Accounts 12. The System of National Accounts: Review of Major Issues 13. Financial Accounts and Balance Sheets: Issues for the Revision of the SNA 14. A Note on the Revision of the United Nations System of National Accounts 15. Statistical Measurements for Economic Systems in Transition: Strategy for Implementing the UN System of National Accounts (SNA) 16. Issues Relating to the UN System of National Accounts and Developing Countries 17.The United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA) and the Integration of Macro- and Microdata Bibliography Index