The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has launched the BEA Digital Library, which provides access to seminal documents related to the history of the U.S. national economic accounts.
The Digital Library can be found at http://library.bea.gov.
At present, the library includes the following, which highlight the first Department of Commerce estimates of national income and product:
Key Survey of Current Business articles from the 1930s and 1940s; The 1934 Senate document that presents the first Department of Commerce estimates of national income; and The first two volumes from the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth in 1937and 1938 (reproduced with permission from the National Bureau of Economic Research). Further materials will be added in the future.
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