New Developments in Productivity Analysis.

• Position: Review

New Developments in Productivity Analysis, edited by Charles R. Hulten, Edwin R. Dean, and Michael J. Harper, is available from the University of Chicago Press for $83.00. This volume in the NBER Studies in Income and Wealth series contains an introduction, fifteen papers, ten comments, and one authors' reply developed from material presented at a conference in Silver Spring, Maryland. The contributed papers re-examine fundamental questions of productivity measurement technique. For example, one paper presents an overview of the Bureau of Labor Statistics's measurement program; another discusses productivity...