Studying the Balance of the National Economy: An Introduction (A Translation)

Abstract

This chapter offers the first full translation from Russian to English of the Balance of the National Economy of the USSR, 1924–26’s first chapter. Involving 12 authors and composed of 21 chapters, the Balance is a collective work published in June 1926 in Moscow by the Soviet Central Statistical Administration under the scientific supervision of its former director, Pavel Illich Popov (1872–1950). In this first chapter, titled ‘Studying the Balance of the National Economy: An Introduction’, Popov set the theoretical foundations of what might be considered as the first modern national accounting system and paved the way to multisector macroeconometric modelling.

Citation

Popov, P.I. (2015), "Studying the Balance of the National Economy: An Introduction (A Translation)", Akhabbar, A. (Ed.) A Research Annual (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 32), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 217-295. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-415420140000032020