Social Accounting: The State of Play
延续诺贝尔奖演讲，评估社会核算的当前状况，讨论未来一代可能关注的重要问题，包括数据收集、特定经济领域问题及人口社会变量与经济变量的整合。
This paper is a continuation of my Nobel Memorial Lecture, in which instead of looking back over the past I try to gauge the present position and discuss some of the important problems which are likely to occupy the attention of social accountants in the coming gener- ation. by means of social accounts. In my Nobel Memorial Lecture I gave a short account of these developments, tracing them back to their begin- nings in earlier eras; Stone (1984). Here I shall take stock of the posi- tion that has now been reached, indicate areas that are attracting attention and try to look forward into possible developments in the coming generation. In a single paper devoted to so large a subject I can do no more than outline what seem to me the more important topics and indicate how far they are still at an exploratory stage, the subject of academic debate, how far they are ready for incorporation in the national accounts of individual countries and how far they can be considered ripe for inter- national harmonisation. I shall begin with general problems of data collection and process- ing, then consider issues in specific economic fields and finally indicate how demographic and social variables can be brought into the economic picture.