Dan Usher is a Professor of Economics at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. He has worked for the United Nations and taught economics in England and the United States. He is the author of many books, including "The Price Mechanism and the Meaning of National Income Statistics "(1968), "The Measurement of Economic Growth "(1980), "The Economic Prerequisite to Democracy "(1981), and "The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation "(1993)"The Uneasy Case for Equalization Payments" (1995), "Collected Papers, Volume I: National Accounting and Economic Theory "and" Volume II: Welfare Eco...