This edition of Ronald Miller and Peter Blair's classic textbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the input-output research and applications community. The book has been fully revised and updated to reflect important developments in the field since its original publication. New topics covered include SAMs (and extended input-output models) and their connection to input-output data, structural decomposition analysis (SDA), multiplier decompositions, identifying important coefficients, and international input-output models. A major new feature of this edition is that it is also supported by an accompanying website with solutions to all problems, wide-ranging real-world data sets, and appendices with further information for more advanced readers. Input-Output Analysis is an ideal introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of fields, including economics, regional science, regional economics, city, regional and urban planning, environmental planning, public policy analysis and public management.

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This essential reference for students and scholars in the input-output research and applications community has been fully revised and updated to reflect important developments in the field. Expanded coverage includes construction and application of multiregional and interregional models, including international models and their application to global economic issues such as climate change and international trade; structural decomposition and path analysis; linkages and key sector identification and hypothetical extraction analysis; the connection of national income and product accounts to input-output accounts; supply and use tables for commodity-by-industry accounting and models; social accounting matrices; non-survey estimation techniques; and energy and environmental applications. Input-Output Analysis is an ideal introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in many scholarly fields, including economics, regional science, regional economics, city, regional and urban planning, environmental planning, public policy analysis and public management.

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The results of a preliminary study on direct analysis of solid metals and nonconductive samples by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) are described. The aerosols ablated from solid samples by a ruby laser are introduced into an inductively coupled plasma, with detection of the resulting ions by a mass spectrometer. With conventional solution introduction, polyatomic species from mineral acids and solvents prevent the accurate determination of some trace analytes. However, using laser ablation, these background peaks are greatly reduced. The relative sensitivity factors for the laser ablation method are seen to vary from unity, with volatile elements such as Pb and Bi being more sensitive. Detection limits of rare-earth elements, Th and U in silicate rocks are excellent (0.02 -0.9 ppm at the effective integrating time of 1.4 s), being better than those of the examined elements in steel (1.7-29 ppm at the effective integrating time of 0.6 s).