This book presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent, at some point in time.

Rodney Edvinsson is Professor of Economic History at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Production, work and consumption in the history of economic thought, Chapter 3: National accounts, Chapter 4: Formalising the definitions of production, work and consumption, Chapter 5: Possible applications of the framework, Chapter 6: The contribution of this book