Research Catalog

Title

Reflections of America : commemorating the Statistical Abstract centennial / Norman Cousins, honorary editor.

Author

United States. Bureau of the Census.

Publication

Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1980.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cousins, Norman.

Description

viii, 204 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subject

• United States. Bureau of the Census
• Government publications > United States
• Economics
• Social history
• Economics
• Social Conditions
• economics
• social history
• Social history
• Government publications
• Economic history
• Social conditions
• United States > Economic conditions
• United States > Social conditions
• United States

Genre/Form

• Statistics
• Statistics.
• Statistiques.

Note

• "Issued December 1980."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Introduction to the Statistical Abstract centennial / Daniel P. Moynihan -- Agriculture : America's number 1 industry / Sylvan H. Wittwer -- The arts, their growth and health / Charles D. Champlin -- America--a storehouse of public opinion / Ben J. Wattenberg & David Gergen -- The moving city / William Marlin -- The emergence of the upper American / Eric F. Goldman -- Communications by the numbers / Ben H. Bagdikian -- Use and conservation of natural resources / Marion Clawson -- What do we know about crime? / Albert J. Reiss, Jr. -- The national accounts : arrival and impact / John Kenneth --Galbraith -- Economic policy for inflation : shadow, substance, and statistics / Walter W. Heller -- Education and society : a complex interaction / Roger W. Heyns -- The labor market and the distribution of income / Andrew F. Brimmer -- Health as ability to function / René Dobos -- Housing and construction : the perspective of a century / George Sternlieb -- Statistics and international relations / George Rathjens -- A case of international trade / J.A. Livingston -- The assimilation of minorities in America / Howard E. Mitchell --
• Population changes and distribution / Philip M. Hauser -- Statistics and the poor / Graciela Olivarez -- The quality of American life and the Statistical Abstract / James A. Michener -- The transportation industry and its changing face / Isabel H. Benham -- Voters and nonvoters / Richard G. Smolka -- Women in the seventies : changing goals, changing roles / Jeane J. Kirkpatrick -- The future role of information in American life / Vincent P. Barabba.

LCCN

80607843

OCLC

• ocm06983526
• 6983526
• SCSB-782519

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library