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BPEA | 1973 No. 3

Capacity Utilization: Concept, Measurement, and Recent Estimates

Lawrence R. Klein and Virginia Long
VL
Virginia Long Wharton Economic Forecasting Associates
Alan Greenspan,
Alan Greenspan President - Greenspan Associates
Douglas Greenwald, and Nathan Edmonson

1973, No. 3


ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS in the past fifteen years, my colleagues and I have
tried to explain disparities among alternative measures of capacity utilization
and to justify our own approach to the measurement problem.1 George
Perry, in his contribution to this issue of Brookings Papers, has indicated
many of the important issues, and I would like to amplify his points or
restate them from another viewpoint in the interests of clarification.