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Capital Gains and Income: Real Changes in the Value of Capital in the United States, 1946-77

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  • Robert Eisner, 1980. "Capital Gains and Income: Real Changes in the Value of Capital in the United States, 1946-77," NBER Chapters, in: The Measurement of Capital, pages 175-346, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    2. Andersson, Tord & Lee, Edward & Theodosopoulos, Grigorios & Yin, Ya Ping & Haslam, Colin, 2014. "Accounting for the financialized UK and US national business model," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 25(1), pages 78-91.
    3. Thomas Piketty & Gabriel Zucman, 2014. "Capital is Back: Wealth-Income Ratios in Rich Countries 1700–2010," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 129(3), pages 1255-1310.
    4. Alan S. Blinder & Irving Kristol & Wilbur J. Cohen, 1980. "The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being," NBER Chapters, in: The American Economy in Transition, pages 415-500, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Niklaus Blattner & Martin Maurer & Markus Weber, 1987. "Voraussetzungen der schweizerischen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der empirischen Analyse," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 123(III), pages 391-414, September.
    6. Gravelle, Jane G & Kotlikoff, Laurence J, 1995. "Corporate Taxation and the Efficiency Gains of the 1986 Tax Reform Act," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 6(1), pages 51-81, June.
    7. Boskin, Michael J. & Robinson, Marc S. & Huber, Alan M., 1987. "Government Saving, Capital Formation and Wealth in the United States, 1947-1985," CEPR Publications 244416, Stanford University, Center for Economic Policy Research.
    8. Thomas L. Hungerford, 2020. "The Course of Income Inequality as a Cohort Ages into Old-Age," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 18(1), pages 71-90, March.
    9. Kurek Bartosz & Górowski Ireneusz, 2020. "Gender and Age as Determinants of Expected Rate of Return on Human Capital," Journal of Management and Business Administration. Central Europe, Sciendo, vol. 28(4), pages 30-50, December.
    10. Robert Eisner, 1984. "Transfers in a Total Incomes System of Accounts," NBER Chapters, in: Economic Transfers in the United States, pages 9-36, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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