Capacity Utilization: Concept, Measurement, and Recent Estimates

Lawrence R. Klein and

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Lawrence R. Klein

Virginia Long

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Virginia Long Wharton Economic Forecasting Associates

Discussants: Alan Greenspan,

Alan Greenspan President - Greenspan Associates

Douglas Greenwald, and

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Douglas Greenwald

Nathan Edmonson

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Nathan Edmonson

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.