Major Antedating of "Gross National Product"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I am pretty sure this is a bad date.

The NBER did research into income. I doubt anyone called its work research
into gross national product as early as 1923.

DanG


On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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> This is a powerful example of the difference between
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> ed antedating and traditional methods.  There are many other pre-1947
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> gross national product (OED 1947)
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> 1923 John R. Commons in _American Economic Review_ 13: Supplement 112
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> R)  The National Bureau of Economic Research has started the accurate
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> rement of our gross national product and its distribution into national
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> ome.
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> Fred Shapiro
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