National Bureau of Economic Research Publications⁹

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects...

This volume, from the 1956 Conference, deals with the nature, reliability, and the uses of the income data included in the 1950 census. It contrasts this data with income information from other sources—field surveys, and...

The author is concerned here with the tax treatment of individuals' income from the sole proprietorships and partnerships in manufacturing, finance, trade, agriculture, and professional practice. Attention is paid to the changing...

A comparison of major shifts in volume of freight traffic in the Soviet Union and in the United States.

Originally published in 1962.

Volume I of this study of the national balance sheet in the postwar period treats statistical problem, structure and trends and application of the balance sheet approach.

Originally published in 1963.

Volume II contains basic data underlying the study of the national balance sheet in the postwar period treats statistical problem, structure and trends and application of the balance sheet approach.

Originally published in 1963.

This conference volume deals with the question of what the economic impact of a shift in federal taxation toward greater use of indirect taxes would be with respect to the rate of saving and investment, personal effort, the balance of...

Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the...

Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman...