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The Importance of National Accounts with William Beach

The Importance of National Accounts with William Beach

The Economist Next Door · American Institute for Economic Research

September 3, 20241h 0m

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Show Notes

Why is the national accounting system so valuable? Can we trust economic data not to be politically biased? And what does it mean to say that complexity is a subsidy?

Joining Dominic today is William Beach to discuss.

Dr. Beach is a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Innovation Center and the former Commisioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.