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SUMMARY:A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR
  - Maria Bach\, Walras Pareto Centre\, University of Lausanne. (Paper join
 tly authored with François Allison\, Walras Pareto Centre\, University of
  Lausanne)
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DESCRIPTION:We propose using a comparative history of national accounting 
 looking at the same time\, the 1920s\, in two different places: India and 
 the USSR. In both places there were attempts at defining and counting nati
 onal wealth. In India\, K.T. Shah and K.J. Khambata produced a national we
 alth estimate to measure the tax capacity of Indians. In the USSR\, P. I. 
 Popov published in 1926 with two dozen of collaborators the first “balan
 ce” of the Soviet economy for the year 1923-1924 with planning objective
  in mind. Comparison in the history of national accounting is particularly
  relevant because the fundamental aim of national accounts is to compare t
 he performance of an economy across time and/or in relation to other econo
 mies. The Indian case study and the comparison between India and USSR are 
 scant\, if not completely absent\, in the history of national accounting. 
 Our aim is to bring India and the comparison with the USSR into the intern
 ational debates on how measurement was and is done to better understand th
 e relative progress of various populations and territories. Our case studi
 es recover and connect intellectuals tuning into global debates on nationa
 l accounting and taking part in dialogues on different ways of counting th
 e economy.
LOCATION:Room 6\, Faculty of History
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