Published macroeconomic data traditionally exclude most intangible investment from measured GDP. This situation is beginning to change, but our estimates suggest that as much as $800 billion is still excluded from U.S. published data (as of 2003), and that this leads to the exclusion of more...

Intangible capital which relies on essential human inputs, which we will refer to as “organization capital,” is an increasingly important part of the US and global capital stock. According to Corrado, Hulten, and Sichel (2009), this type of capital is the single largest category of business...

Published macroeconomic data traditionally exclude most intangible investment from measured GDP. This situation is beginning to change, but our estimates suggest that as much as $800 billion is still excluded from U.S. published data (as of 2003), and that this leads to the exclusion of more...