Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)

Dan Usher

The Uneasy Case for Equalization Payments

The Price Mechanism and the Meaning of National Income Statistics

This work dwells upon two themes, each of which differs from traditional welfare economics - predation or taking (as a source of inefficiency in the economy) and the tension between voting and markets as alternative methods of decision-making.

The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation

How is real capital measured by government statistical agencies? How could this measure be improved to correspond more closely to an economist's ideal measure of capital in economic analysis and prediction? It is possible to construct a single, reliable time series for all capital goods, regardless of differences in vintage, technological complexity, and rates of depreciation? These questions represent the common themes of this collection of papers, originally presented at a 1976 meeting of the Conference on Income and Wealth.

Dan Usher

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