Teaching / MERG

The political economy of national accounts

Autumn 2024

Time: Saturdays, 2–4:30 p.m. (Beijing time).

Reading list (PDF)

Background

  1. 高敏雪、李静萍、许健 (2022). 国民经济核算原理与中国实践. 中国人民大学出版社.

  2. 徐向新 (1990). 国民经济核算. 中国统计出版社. Chapters 1–2.

  3. Supplementary · Lequiller, F.; Blades, D. (2014). Understanding National Accounts. OECD Publishing. Link.

  4. Supplementary · Reich, U. (2001). National Accounts and Economic Value: A Study in Concepts. Palgrave Macmillan.

Foundational studies

  1. Wolff, Edward N. (1986). Growth, Accumulation, and Unproductive Activity: An Analysis of the Postwar US Economy. Cambridge University Press.

  2. Shaikh, Anwar; Tonak, Ahmet (1994). Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts. Cambridge University Press.

  3. Morishima, M.; Seton, F. (1961). Aggregation in Leontief Matrices and the Labour Theory of Value. Econometrica. 29(2): 203. DOI.

Recent contributions

  1. Freitas, Antonio (2021). The Rate of Surplus Value in Brazil, 1996–2016. Review of Radical Political Economics. 53(3): 398–422. DOI.

  2. Mohun, Simon (2005). On Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The US Economy, 1964–2001. Cambridge Journal of Economics. 29(5): 799–815. DOI.

  3. 马梦挺 (2019). 基于国民经济核算体系的剩余价值率计算:理论与中国经验. 世界经济. 42(07): 3–23. Link.