| Description |
1 online resource (404 pages) |
| Series |
National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth |
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Studies in income and wealth.
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| Contents |
Price Measurements and Their Uses; Contents; Prefatory Note; Introduction; I. High-Tech Products: Computers; II. High-Tech Products: Semiconductors; III. Quality-Change Issues in Consumer Prices; IV. Transaction Prices; V. Price Indexes for Defense; VI. BEA's Treatment of Computer Prices and Productivity Measurement; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Computers -- Prices -- Congresses
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Computers.
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Consumer price indexes.
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Consumer price indexes -- Congresses
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Price indexes -- Congresses
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Price indexes.
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Semiconductors.
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Semiconductors -- Prices -- Congresses
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Electronic digital computers.
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computers.
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semiconductor.
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Electronic digital computers
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Computers
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Computers -- Prices
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Consumer price indexes
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Price indexes
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Semiconductors
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Semiconductors -- Prices
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Manser, Marilyn E
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Young, Allan H
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| LC no. |
93006874 |
| ISBN |
9780226257327 |
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0226257320 |
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1281223409 |
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9781281223401 |
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9786611223403 |
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6611223401 |
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