Production and Welfare: Progress in Economic Measurement
回顾了美国及国际组织在国民核算中测量生产与福利的最新进展，指出GDP被误用作福利代理，并探讨了超越国民核算框架的创新方法，对研究经济政策评估和收入分配的学者有参考价值。
While the GDP was intended by its originators as a measure of production, the absence of a measure of welfare in the national accounts has led to widespread misuse of the GDP to proxy welfare. Measures of welfare are needed to appraise the outcomes of changes in economic policies and evaluate the results. Concepts that describe the income distribution, such as poverty and inequality, fall within the scope of welfare rather than production. This paper reviews recent advances in the measurement of production and welfare within the national accounts, primarily in the United States and international organizations. Expanding the framework beyond the national accounts has led to important innovations in the measurement of both production and welfare.