Major Antedating of "Gross National Product"

[Shapiro, Fred]

This is a powerful example of the difference between online-database-assisted antedating and traditional methods.  There are many other pre-1947 occurrences in JSTOR.


gross national product (OED 1947)

1923 John R. Commons in _American Economic Review_ 13: Supplement 112 (JSTOR)  The National Bureau of Economic Research has started the accurate measurement of our gross national product and its distribution into national income.


Fred Shapiro

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