The purpose of this Grand Challenge is to accelerate the development of new economic data for the resolution of policy issues involving long-term growth. Significant examples include public and private provision for retirement income and the outlook for health care expenditures and public...

The resurgence of the American economy since 1995 has outrun all but the most optimistic expectations. Economic forecasting models have been seriously off track and growth projections have been revised to reflect a more sanguine outlook only recently. It is not surprising that the unusual...

The “killer application” of the new framework for productivity measurement presented in this paper is the impact of information technology (IT) on economic growth. A consensus has emerged that the remarkable behavior of IT prices provides the key to the surge in U.S. economic growth after...