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The first four chapters that follow deal with the money flows of the national accounts, valued at current prices. The emphasis is on the concepts, on methods of estimating the main aggregates and on ways of setting out the sector accounts. Later chapters take up the problem of valuing aggregates in real terms at constant prices and the price index numbers implied by these real measures. There are numerous illustrations throughout, in the form of tabulations taken from official publications. The text is an 'introduction' in two senses. First, it makes no attempt at full coverage of the very extensive and extremely detailed national accounts. It deals at some length with the main aggregates, and with their division into broad components, as set out in the summary tables of the national accounts. It says something about the accounts of the main sectors: personal and corporate sectors, central and local govemment, international transactions in the balance of payments. It goes on to explain what is meant by the summary capital account, and by the complete balance of payments on current and capital account. But no more: there is nothing on sector capital accounts, on ~tocks of fixed capi

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Author
R. G. D. Allen (auth.)
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Published
1980
Language
EN
ISBN
9780333281956
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Business, Economics

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