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Reconstructing The Past: The Measurement Of Aggregate Product

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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.

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  • Fenoaltea, Stefano, 2020. "Reconstructing The Past: The Measurement Of Aggregate Product," MPRA Paper 97042, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
    • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
    • N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods

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