Alan Heston
Biographic Data
| ID | 291850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Heston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Heston |
| SIGNATURE | HESTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4480-0053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Flaw of One Price; The International Comparison Program in Historical Perspective
Estimating Real Production and Expenditures across Nations
We propose a new approach to the international comparison of real GDP, as measured from the output-side. The traditional Gary-Khamis system, which measures real GDP from the expenditure-side, is modified to include differences in the terms of trade between countries. It is shown that this system has a strictly positive solution under mild assumptions. On the basis of a sample of 151 countries in 1996, it is shown that differences between real GDP…
Institutional Flaws and Corruption Incentives in India
India has achieved a respectable rate of economic growth in an environment that is quite permissive of corrupt practices to the extent that acts of corruption, if sufficiently clever, are not scorned but praised. Despite the coexistence of corruption and unprecedented economic growth we argue that there is unrealised potential for further growth that is held back by the institutions of administration and associated corruption. With growth as subs…
Crusades and Jihads
Crusades and jihads have been a part of the histories of Christianity and Islam for more than a century. This article examines this often-violent history from several perspectives, focusing heavily on the period between 1000 and 1300, and on the factors that allowed Europe and its overseas extensions in North America and Australia to economically overtake the rest of the world by 1600. While some weight is given to religion in the discussion, man…
Jaime Ros. The Economics of Growth . Ann Arbor
A brief review of some problems in using national accounts data in level of output comparisons and growth studies
India’s Economic Reforms
Essay| March 01 1992 India’s Economic Reforms: The Real Thing? Alan Heston Alan Heston Alan Heston is a professor of economics and South Asian studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written on India’s economic history and on India’s economic performance compared with that of other developing countries. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1992) 91 (563): 113–116. https://doi.org/10.…
Arrested Development in India
The Penn World Table (Mark 5)
The Penn World Table displays a set of national accounts economic time series covering many countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common currency so that real quantity comparisons can be made, both between countries and over time. It also provides information about relative prices within and between countries, as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates. This updated, revised, and expanded M…
Economics
Monastery and Guild
A New Set of International Comparisons of Real Product and Price Levels Estimates for 130 Countries, 1950–1985
A new set of international comparisons covering the period 1950–85 is developed here for 121 market and 9 centrally planned economies. This new so‐called Penn World Table (Mark 4), a completely revised and updated expansion of an equivalent table published by the authors in 1984, draws on the data of two previously unavailable international comparison benchmark studies. This article presents a detailed description of all estimation procedures, an…
The Economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Economics
International Relations and Politics
The Economics of Camel Transport in Pakistan
The Financial Development of India, Japan, and the United States
Improved International Comparisons of Real Product and Its Composition
A set of international comparisons is developed for 124 countries over the three post World War II decades, 1950‐80. A Data Table is presented which gives, for most countries and most years, real product estimates for three different national income concepts and for the major subaggregates consumption, investment, and government. Detailed comparative price level estimates are provided as well.
Public expenditure and Indian development policy, 1960–1970
An introduction to South Asia
The persistence of land fragmentation in peasant agriculture
World Product and Income
Journal Article World Product and Income: International Comparisons of Real Gross Product Get access World Product and Income: International Comparisons of Real Gross Product. By Irving B. KRAVIS, ALAN HESTON and ROBERT SUMMERS. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, for The World Bank. Pp. x + 388. §45.50, £26.25.) T. Barna T. Barna University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Railways of the Raj
The role of NGOs
Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries
Journal Article Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries Get access Irving B. Kravis, Irving B. Kravis University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan W. Heston, Alan W. Heston University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Summers Robert Summers University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
World Product and Income
Journal Article World Product and Income: International Comparisons of Real Gross Product Get access World Product and Income: International Comparisons of Real Gross Product. By Irving B. KRAVIS, ALAN HESTON and ROBERT SUMMERS. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, for The World Bank. Pp. x + 388. §45.50, £26.25.) T. Barna T. Barna University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
An Approach to the Sacred Cow of India
The article supports the traditional view that cattle are in excess in India. It is argued that resources that could be used by humans are now devoted to cattle. Further, it is argued that it would be possible to have fewer cattle and the same output of cattle products, including dung and hides, whether or not cattle may be slaughtered. Quantitative data on the distribution of cattle in the subcontinent are shown to be consistent with the view th…
Official Yields Per Acre in India, 1886-1947; Some Questions of Interpretation
A main concern of historical studies of agriculture has been the trend in simple welfare measures like total and per capita production. These welfare measures are of particular importance for interpreting the economic history of India since 1880 because of the dominance of the agricultural sector. Over half the value of total output consisted of agricultural crops; further output per worker in agriculture is often taken as an approximation for tr…
International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power
The Economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595
The persistence of land fragmentation in peasant agriculture
Monastery and Guild
The Standard of Living in Akbar's Time
A Further Critique of Historical Yields Per Acre in India
The Economics of Camel Transport in Pakistan
Crusades and Jihads
Crusades and jihads have been a part of the histories of Christianity and Islam for more than a century. This article examines this often-violent history from several perspectives, focusing heavily on the period between 1000 and 1300, and on the factors that allowed Europe and its overseas extensions in North America and Australia to economically overtake the rest of the world by 1600. While some weight is given to religion in the discussion, man…
An introduction to South Asia
The Ryotwari System in Madras, 1792-1827
Peasant Marketing in Java
Planning in Pakistan
There are many studies available which discuss techniques of planning, but there are few which deal with the organizational and administrative aspects of planning or with the design of policies, procedures and institutional arrangements for implementing development plans. Because of the lack of published material in these fields, developing countries often establish their own machinery for planning and implementation without benefiting from the e…
Variations in Agricultural Growth and Output between and within Regions of India
Research Article| March 01 1968 Variations in Agricultural Growth and Output between and within Regions of India Alan Heston Alan Heston Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1939) 8 (3): 174–187. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642566 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get …
Deficit Financing Controls and Movement of Prices in India since 1947
Labour Economics
Organisation of Indian Insurance
An Approach to the Sacred Cow of India
The article supports the traditional view that cattle are in excess in India. It is argued that resources that could be used by humans are now devoted to cattle. Further, it is argued that it would be possible to have fewer cattle and the same output of cattle products, including dung and hides, whether or not cattle may be slaughtered. Quantitative data on the distribution of cattle in the subcontinent are shown to be consistent with the view th…
Agricultural Development in India's Districts
Official Yields Per Acre in India, 1886-1947; Some Questions of Interpretation
A main concern of historical studies of agriculture has been the trend in simple welfare measures like total and per capita production. These welfare measures are of particular importance for interpreting the economic history of India since 1880 because of the dominance of the agricultural sector. Over half the value of total output consisted of agricultural crops; further output per worker in agriculture is often taken as an approximation for tr…
Rise of Business Corporations in India, 1851-1900 . Radhe Shyam Rungta
Private Investment in India, 1900-1939
The Standard of Living in Akbar's Time
International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power
Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries
Journal Article Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries Get access Irving B. Kravis, Irving B. Kravis University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan W. Heston, Alan W. Heston University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Summers Robert Summers University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
A Further Critique of Historical Yields Per Acre in India
Questions in the Sacred-Cow Controversy [and Comments and Reply]
Contrary to Marvin Harris's hypothesis, desiccation and population increase in India following 1000 B.C. are highly unlikely to have been the origin of the Hindu ban on cow slaughter and beef eating. In many places in present-day India,"wild" and stray cattle are serious problem to farmers. The sacred-cow concept contributes to a significant waste of beef and inefficiency in cattle breeding. Homes for old cows are basically religious institutions…
Railways of the Raj
The persistence of land fragmentation in peasant agriculture
World Product and Income
Journal Article World Product and Income: International Comparisons of Real Gross Product Get access World Product and Income: International Comparisons of Real Gross Product. By Irving B. KRAVIS, ALAN HESTON and ROBERT SUMMERS. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, for The World Bank. Pp. x + 388. §45.50, £26.25.) T. Barna T. Barna University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Improved International Comparisons of Real Product and Its Composition
A set of international comparisons is developed for 124 countries over the three post World War II decades, 1950‐80. A Data Table is presented which gives, for most countries and most years, real product estimates for three different national income concepts and for the major subaggregates consumption, investment, and government. Detailed comparative price level estimates are provided as well.
Public expenditure and Indian development policy, 1960–1970
An introduction to South Asia
International Relations and Politics
The Economics of Camel Transport in Pakistan
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