一、宏观经济监测的任务、内容和方法 (一)宏观经济监测的发展过程宏观经济监测,首先是在资本主义国家产生的。早期,资本主义国家比较广泛地流行过一种经济指数——经济活动指数。这种指数是把许多经济含义极不相同的数列,诸如产品产量、价格、运输量、交易所交易额等指标,结合在一起编成的。数列选择的本身,以及把这些数列合成统一指数所必须的权数的确定,完全以作者的主观评价为基础。据认为,所取得的指数能够说明资本主义经济发 I. Tasks, Contents and Methods of Macroeconomic Monitoring 3.1 The Development Process of Macroeconomic Monitoring Macroeconomic monitoring is first and foremost produced in capitalist countries. In the early days, the capitalist countries were prevalent over an economic index, the index of economic activity. This index is a combination of a number of very different economic series, such as product yield, price, volume of transportation, exchange-traded volume and other indicators. The choice of the sequence itself, and the determination of the weights necessary to synthesize these series into a single index, is entirely based on the author’s subjective evaluation. It is believed that the index obtained can illustrate the capitalist economic development