NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Problems of Capital Formation: Concepts, Measurement, and Controlling Factors

Conference on Research in Income and Wealth

Published in 1957 by NBER
in NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth

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0623 pages
ISBN: 0-870-14175-9

Table of Contents

Front matter: Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (p. -11 - -1) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction : Franco Modigliani (p. 3 - 9) (bibliographic info) (download)

1. Capital Formation in Private Nonfarm Residential Construction : David M. Blank, Louis Winnick (p. 13 - 55) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. A Review of Existing Estimates of Business Investment in Inventories : James P. Daly (p. 57 - 89) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Capital Formation in Canada : Kenneth Buckley (p. 91 - 145) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Financing of Capital Formation: Daniel H. Brill (p. 147 - 192) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Changes in the Accounting Treatment of Capital Items during the Last Fifty Years: George 0. May (p. 193 - 213) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Theoretical Aspects of Quality Change, Capital Consumption, and Net Capital Formation: Edward F. Denison (p. 215 - 284) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. Capital Coefficients as Economic Parameters: the Problem of Instability: Anne P. Carter (p. 287 - 310) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Capital Coefficients in Mineral and Metal Industries: Frederick T. Moore (p. 311 - 345) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Conceptual and Statistical Problems in Estimating Capital Coefficients for Four Metal Fabricating Industries: Raymond T. Bowman, Almarin Phillips (p. 347 - 374) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. A Report on the Calculation of Capital Coefficients for the Petroleum Industry: John E. Hodges (p. 375 - 387) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. Estimating Future Purchases of Capital Equipment for Replacement: Robert N. Grosse, Edward B. Berman (p. 389 - 417) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. Capacity, Capacity Utilization, and the Acceleration Principle: Bert G. Hickman (p. 419 - 468) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. Characteristics of Inventory Investment: the Aggregate and Its Parts: Ruth P. Mack (p. 471 - 493) (bibliographic info) (download)

14. Business Reasons for Holding Inventories and Their Macro-Economic Implications: Franco Modigliani (p. 495 - 511) (bibliographic info) (download)

15. Interview and Other Survey Techniques and the Study of Investment: Robert Eisner (p. 513 - 601) (bibliographic info) (download)

Author Index: Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (p. 603 - 604) (bibliographic info) (download)

Subject Index: Conference on Research in Income and Wealth (p. 605 - 609) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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