Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Relation of The Directors to The Work and Publications of The National Bureau of Economic Research vi
3. National Bureau of Economic Research 1961 vii
4. Contents ix
5. Tables xiii
6. Figures and Charts xxv
7. Acknowledgments xxix
8. Introduction 1
9. Chapter 1. Capital Formation, Saving, and Financing: Definitions and Relations 15
10. Chapter 2. The Meaning of Long-Term Trends 36
11. Chapter 3. Trends in Total Capital Formation, 1869-1955 55
12. Chapter 4. Trends in the Structure of Capital Formation 118
13. Chapter 5. Trends in Financing of Capital Formation: Share of Internal Funds 220
14. Chapter 6. Trends in Financing of Capital Formation: Structure of External Financing 272
15. Chapter 7. Long Swings in Population Growth, Capital Formation, and National Product 316
16. Chapter 8. Long Swings in Financing of Capital Formation 361
17. Chapter 9. Summary of Findings 389
18. Chapter 10. The Past as Prologue 429
19. Appendixes
20. Appendix A. Annual Estimates, 1919-1955 465
21. Appendix B. Estimates for Overlapping Decades, 1869-1953 505
22. Appendix C. Annual Estimates and Quinquennial Moving Averages for the Years before 1919 534
23. Appendix D. Changes in Net Durable Capital, Sector Estimates, Compared with Commodity Flow Totals of Net Construction and Equipment 602
24. Appendix E. Estimates of Population and of the Labor Force: Census and Mid-Censal Dates, and Quinquennial Moving Averages 613
25. Index 637