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Part C. Economic Structure and Performance

Chapter Ca. National income and product

Editor: Richard Sutch

Essays:

• National income and product
• National income and product associations: official estimates
• Estimates of national product before 1929

Tables:

• Aggregate measures and long-term GDP series
• National income
• National product
• National product before 1929

Chapter Cb. Business fluctuations and cycles

Editor: Richard Sutch

Essay: Economic fluctuations, recessions, and depressions

Tables:

• Business cycle chronology
• Business cycle indicators
• The Great Depression

Chapter Cc. Prices

Editor: Christopher Hanes

Associate editors: Peter H. Lindert and Robert A. Margo

Essay: Prices and price indexes

Tables:

• Consumer price indexes
• Wholesale and producer price indexes
• Commodity prices

Chapter Cd. Consumer expenditures

Editor: Lee A. Craig

Essay: Consumer expenditures

Tables:

• Classified by type
• Classified by family characteristics

Chapter Ce. Saving, capital, and wealth

Editor: Richard Sutch

Essay: Saving, capital, and wealth

Tables:

• Saving National balance sheets
• National wealth

Chapter Cf. Geography and the environment

Editor: Gavin Wright

Associate editors: Scott Farrow and Myron P. Gutmann

Essays:

• Natural resources and the environment
• Weather

Tables:

• Land and water
• The environment
• Weather

Chapter Cg. Science, technology, and productivity

Editor: Gavin Wright

Associate editor: Stanley L. Engerman

Essays:

• Science and technology
• Productivity

Tables:

• Copyrights, patents, and trademarks
• Research and development
• Computers
• Productivity

Chapter Ch. Business organization

Editor: Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Essay: Business organization

Tables:

• Business population, by legal status
• Incorporations, failures, and bankruptcies
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Enterprises
• Corporate balance sheets

Chapter Cj. Financial markets and institutions

Editor: Michael D. Bordo

Associate editors: Richard G. Anderson, Howard Bodenhorn, John a. James, Hugh Rockoff, Peter L. Rousseau, Richard Sylla, David C. Wheelock, and Eugene N. White

Essays:

• Financial markets and institutions
• Monetary aggregates
• Monetary statistics before the national banking era
• Monetary policy
• Financial institutions and their regulation
• Securities markets
• Debt and the flow of funds
• Interest rates and yields

Tables:

• Monetary aggregates
• Monetary policy
• Banks
• Savings banks and associations
• Other financial institutions
• Deposit Insurance
• Life and property insurance
• Equity and bond markets
• Debt and flow of funds
• Interest rates and yields

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