The Early History of the NBER
Published Date
Copyright 2013
ISBN 9780226256610
This chapter discusses the history of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). It covers the prewar origins of the NBER; the role (and limitations) of economists during World War I; and the founding of the NBER in 1920.
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Copy CitationRobert William Fogel, Mark Guglielmo, and Nathaniel Grotte, Political Arithmetic: Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics (University of Chicago Press, 2013), chap. 2, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/political-arithmetic-simon-kuznets-and-empirical-tradition-economics/early-history-nber.
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