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Problems of Capital Formation: Concepts, Measurement, and Controlling Factors
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Published Date
January 1957
Copyright
1957
ISBN
0-87014-175-9
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Series
: Studies in Income and Wealth
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Table of Contents
Front matter to "Problems of Capital Formation: Concepts, Measurement, and Controlling Factors"
Author(s):
Introduction
Author(s):
Franco Modigliani
(p. 3-9)
Chapter 1:
Capital Formation in Private Nonfarm Residential Construction
Author(s):
(p. 13-55)
Chapter 2:
A Review of Existing Estimates of Business Investment in Inventories
Author(s):
(p. 57-89)
Chapter 3:
Capital Formation in Canada
Author(s):
(p. 91-145)
Chapter 4:
Financing of Capital Formation
Author(s):
(p. 147-192)
Chapter 5:
Changes in the Accounting Treatment of Capital Items during the Last Fifty Years
Author(s):
(p. 193-213)
Chapter 6:
Theoretical Aspects of Quality Change, Capital Consumption, and Net Capital Formation
Author(s):
(p. 215-284)
Chapter 7:
Capital Coefficients as Economic Parameters: The Problem of Instability
Author(s):
(p. 287-310)
Chapter 8:
Capital Coefficients in Mineral and Metal Industries
Author(s):
(p. 311-345)
Chapter 9:
Conceptual and Statistical Problems in Estimating Capital Coefficients for Four Metal Fabricating Industries
Author(s):
(p. 347-374)
Chapter 10:
A Report on the Calculation of Capital Coefficients for the Petroleum Industry
Author(s):
(p. 375-387)
Chapter 11:
Estimating Future Purchases of Capital Equipment for Replacement
Author(s):
(p. 389-417)
Chapter 12:
Capacity, Capacity Utilization, and the Acceleration Principle
Author(s):
(p. 419-468)
Chapter 13:
Characteristics of Inventory Investment: The Aggregate and Its Parts
Author(s):
(p. 471-493)
Chapter 14:
Business Reasons for Holding Inventories and Their Macro-Economic Implications
Author(s):
(p. 495-511)
Chapter 15:
Interview and Other Survey Techniques and the Study of Investment
Author(s):
(p. 513-601)
Author Index
Author(s):
(p. 603-604)
Subject Index
Author(s):
(p. 605-609)
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