Economic Transfers in the United States: Volume 49

by Marilyn Moon

In recent years the definition of an economic transfer--a payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity--has been subject to even wider interpretation. This volume addresses that trend and introduces new methods of measuring transfers in the American economy.

Social security, private pension benefits, housing, and health care are traditional kinds of transfers. Accurate measurements of the degree...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226535053
• ISBN13: 9780226535050
• Release Date: September 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"