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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 and effect of these and of other, newly interpreted transfers are vital to economic policy making. Though this volume is not directly concerned with policy-making issues, it does impinge on many areas of current public concern; methods of transfer valuation, for example, may affect how we view the status of the aged. Researchers, policy analysts, and those who compile statistics on which social programs are based on will value the diverse approaches of these ten papers and their accompanying comments. Taken together the essays give great insight into the complexities of defining transfers and provide a wealth of new analytic methods. They were developed from material presented at the Income and Wealth Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers held at Madison, Wisconsin, in 1982.

Public expenditure --- United States --- Transfer payments --- Income distribution --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 339.0 --- 336.830 --- 330.580 --- 339.21 --- 336.01 --- 336.024 --- 368.40 --- 336.204 --- Algemeenheden. Nationale rekeningen. --- Financiële tegemoetkomingen van de Staat volgens voorwerp: algemeenheden. Ondernemingscentra. --- Gecontroleerde economie. Geleide economie. Welvaarststaat. Algemeenheden. --- Ongelijkheid en herverdeling van vermogens en inkomens. Inkomensbeleid. --- Overheidsbemoeiing op economisch gebied. --- Sociale begroting, rekeningen en uitgaven. Gezondheid. --- Sociale voorzorg en verzekeringen. Sociale zekerheid: algemeenheden. --- weerslag, invloed, last en verdeling van de belasting. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Gecontroleerde economie. Geleide economie. Welvaarststaat. Algemeenheden --- Overheidsbemoeiing op economisch gebied --- Sociale begroting, rekeningen en uitgaven. Gezondheid --- weerslag, invloed, last en verdeling van de belasting --- Financiële tegemoetkomingen van de Staat volgens voorwerp: algemeenheden. Ondernemingscentra --- Algemeenheden. Nationale rekeningen --- Ongelijkheid en herverdeling van vermogens en inkomens. Inkomensbeleid --- Sociale voorzorg en verzekeringen. Sociale zekerheid: algemeenheden --- Transfer payments - United States --- Income distribution - United States --- economics, economy, economic transfer, payment, current productive activity, united states of america, american society, usa, transfers, social security, private pension benefits, housing, houses, healthcare, home ownership, policy making, valuation, income distribution, 20th century, retirement, government programs, taxes, taxation, capital. --- Income --- Redistribution. --- United States of America