Price Measurements and Their Uses.
In an economy characterized by frequent change in technology, in the types of goods and services purchased, and in the forms of business organization, keeping track of price change continues to pose many difficulties. Price change affects the way we perceive changes in such basic measures as real ou...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1993.
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| Series: | Studies in income and wealth.
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| Summary: | In an economy characterized by frequent change in technology, in the types of goods and services purchased, and in the forms of business organization, keeping track of price change continues to pose many difficulties. Price change affects the way we perceive changes in such basic measures as real output, productivity, and living standards. This volume, which brings together academic economists with those responsible for official price indexes, presents outstanding new research on price measurement. Half of the papers focus on prices for mainframe and personal computers, semiconductors, and oth. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (404 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780226257327 0226257320 1281223409 9781281223401 9786611223403 6611223401 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |