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The National Bureau of Economic Research was founded in 1920 and has been regarded as one of the leading research organizations in economics ever since. This entry deals briefly with the founding of the NBER, its early research on national income and business cycles, its later research directions and contributions, and some of the more important changes in organization and direction that have occurred up to 2007.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2008. Edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume
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Rutherford, M. (2008). National Bureau of Economic Research. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_2073-1
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