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| Figures and Tables | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Long Wave of History | |
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| Historical Origins: the Big Bang | |
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| The Wave in Descent | |
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| Worldview | |
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| The National Economic Accounting System | |
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| The Structure of the Accounts | |
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| The Measure of Output and Expenditure | |
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| The Income Side of the Accounts | |
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| Relations Between the Output and Income Sides of the Accounts | |
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| Housing in the National Accounts | |
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| Saving and Investment in the National Accounts | |
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| The Federal Government in the National Accounts | |
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| Long-Term Trends in the National Accounts | |
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| Actual and Middle-Expansion Trend Output | |
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| The Data Stream | |
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| The Personal Sector: Income, Spending, Credit Use | |
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| The Housing Market | |
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| Capital Spending and Its Sources | |
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| Accounting for Corporate Profits | |
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| The Manufacturing Industries: Production, Sales, Inventories, Orders | |
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| Employment and Unemployment | |
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| Prices, Wages, and Productivity | |
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| Financial Data: The Capital Markets | |
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| How to Watch the Business Cycle | |
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| The Cycle in the Statistics | |
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| Foreshadowing Statistics | |
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| Other Indicators of the Cycle | |
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| The Influence of Economic Policy | |
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| Fiscal Policy | |
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| Fiscal Flux | |
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| Monetary Policy | |
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| The Condition of Financial Markets | |
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| The United States in the World | |
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| Inflation and Economic Policies | |
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| The Wave of the Future | |
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| The Growth Rate Itself | |
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| The Trend in the Labor Force | |
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| The Productivity Outlook | |
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| A Laboring Government | |
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| The United States in the World: An Emerging Normal | |
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| Private-Sector Considerations | |
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| The Social Burden | |
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| The Ethical Burden | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Epilogue: A Footnote on the Mixed Economy | |
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| Appendix A: Alphabetical List of Series | |
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| Appendix B: Approximate Release Dates for Monthly Statistics | |
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| Appendix C: Approximate Release Dates for Quarterly Statistics | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| About The Conference Board | |