National accounting and economic policy : the United States UN systems / Nancy D. Ruggles, and Richard Ruggles.

Foreword / by Peter Hill, vii -- Preface, xiii -- Abstracts, xix -- List of tables and figures, xxv -- Part one. Evolution and concepts of national accounting -- 1. National income accounting and its relation to economic policy / Richard Ruggles, 3 -- 2. Concepts of real capital stocks and services / Richard Ruggles and Nancy D. Ruggles, 39 -- 3. The evolution and present state of national economic accounting / Richard Ruggles and Nancy D. Ruggles, 56 -- 4. The role of the national accounts in the statistical system / Richard Ruggles, 70 -- 5. The treatment of pensions and insurance in the national accounts / Nancy D. Ruggles and Richard Ruggles, 91 -- 6. National income accounting concepts and measurement: economic theory and practice / Richard Ruggles, 129 -- 7. The value added of national accounting / Richard Ruggles and Patricia Ruggles, 162 -- Part two. United States national accounts -- 8. The evolution of national accounts and the national data base / Richard Ruggles and Nancy D. Ruggles, 171 -- 9. The United States national income accounts, 1947-77: their conceptual basis and evolution / Richard Ruggles, 185 -- 10. Integrated economic accounts for the United States, 1947-80 / Richard Ruggles and Nancy D. Ruggles, 243 -- 11. Integrated economic accounts: reply / Richard Ruggles and Nancy D. Ruggles, 305 -- Part three. United Nations system of national accounts -- 12. The system of national accounts: review of major issues / Richard Ruggles, 345 -- 13. Financial accounts and balance sheets: issues for the revision of the SNA / Nancy D. Ruggles, 414 -- 14. A note on the revision of the United Nations system of national accounts / Richard Ruggles, 442 -- 15. Statistical measurements for economic systems in transition: strategy for implementing the UN system of national accounts (SNA) / Richard Ruggles, 451 -- 16. Issues relating to the UN system of national accounts and developing countries / Richard Ruggles, 486 -- 17. The United Nations system of national accounts (SNA) and the integration of macro- and microdata / Richard Ruggles, 495 -- Bibliography, 523 -- Index, 537.