Chapter 21 Websites

The premium site for the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts is from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) at www.bea.doc.gov. This site also contains recent issues of The Survey of Current Business, which discusses recent economic trends.

A comprehensive launching pad for government data in many sectors can be found at www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stats.html. The best single statistical source for data on the United States is The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published annually. It is available online at www.census.gov/statab/www.

A recent review of alternative approached to augmented and environmental accounting is contained in a report by the National Academy of Sciences in William Nordhaus and Edward Kokkelenberg, eds., Nature's Numbers: Expanding the National Accounts to Include the Environment (Washington, D.C., National Academy Press, 1999) available at www.nap.edu.

For price data, see the sites for Chapter 32.