Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Fixed Assets

We spent some time in class looking for a number that we could use to represent aggregate capital in the U.S.

We started out with some keywords and got to capital formation first. This is akin to net investment in (new) capital, when we really want existing capital.

Fixed assets was mentioned and seemed more like what we need. Data on fixed assets is collected by the Department of Commerce.

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