This article discusses the evolving ways in which the national accounts are, or could be, used to inform and assist in key areas of concern to governments and their citizens. It begins with a discussion of 'traditional' national accounts and the familiar uses that are made of them to gauge the...

Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury, Ed Balls, sets out the government’s approach to making the decision about British membership of a single European currency in an historical context. The basis for deciding whether there is a clear and unambiguous economic case to join the single...