The article focuses on new possible approaches of total factor productivity measurement. The standard computation takes into account the number of hours worked as the labour input and net or gross fixed capital stock as the capital input. This article improves the computation by using labour...

The paper describes the development of household consumption expenditures from a longer perspective. Currently, there are available data for more than forty years and it means that lots of information about changes in structure and main tendencies can be studied. Since the emphasis is put on the...

The estimates of economic development in the countries of the socialist block were carried out in the framework of the so-called Material Product System (MPS). At that time the product was perceived more narrowly than today´s gross domestic product (GDP). It included only the material goods and...

The paper describes the changes in Czech economy in the period between 1970 and 2010 from the macroeconomic perspective. It is based on the detailed study of sources and uses of gross domestic product with respect to labour inputs. Used data sources come from recently published historical data...