United States Department of Commerce (1941–1950) From 1941 to 1950, Gilbert was chief of the National Income Division of the
United States Department of Commerce. Gilbert's view on the inclusion of government in GDP was heavily influenced by his cousin, the Keynesian economist and Harvard teacher Richard Gilbert, the director of the Defense Economic Section of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply (OPACS),
Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (Paris, France) (1951–1960) From 1951 to 1960, Gilbert worked as an economist at the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) in
Paris, While there, he collaborated with
Irving B. Kravis on
An International Comparison of National Products and the Purchasing Power of Currencies (1954), a pioneering work on international comparison of production and purchasing power. Gilbert co-authored further work along the same lines published in 1958. which in turn would lead to
Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries by Kravis,
Alan W. Heston and
Robert Summers in 1978, the first version of the
Penn World Table.
Bank for International Settlements (Basel, Switzerland) (1960–1975) Gilbert served as Economic Adviser for the
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in
Basel,
Switzerland The book is available as a PDF from the website of Princeton University's International Economics Section. ==Recognition==