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houlette du FMI, un programme de lutte contre l’inflation, tendon d’Achille traditionnel du pays et une politique budgétaire d …
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The author summarizes the report’s methods, findings, and recommendations, and then reviews the comments and criticisms that appeared soon after the report was issued. Changes in CPI methodology are also summarized and assessed, as is recent research on related issues. Based on recent...
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the report. He documents the research on price indexes done at the BLS in the first half of the 1990s that pointed to …
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The author highlights the extremely salutatory effect the Boskin Commission has had on international price statistics …, promoting open discussion of price measurement issues, engendering dialogue between statistical agencies and users, and …
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The author supports the type of the back-of-the-envelope calculations of CPI bias that the Commission used so effectively to attract public attention to its report. In the area of quality adjustment, however, he criticizes the Boskin Commission for what he calls “premature extrapolation,”...
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The author provides a political economy interpretation of the rise and fall of public interest in price measurement … outcomes. He concludes that the BLS has responded constructively to the recommendations from the various price measurement …
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decade on price measurement. A final article discusses the role of information technology in the US growth resurgence. …
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Brief introduction to the symposium highlighting the importance of price measurement for reliable productivity … estimates. Accurate price indexes are essential for reliable productivity measurement. the author points out that a one … percentage point upward bias in price changes results in a one percentage point downward bias in real output growth and by …
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Using the works of Steven Lukes, John Kenneth Galbraith and Kenneth Boulding, this paper gives a typology of power relationships in economics, a concept that has been “forgotten” by the mainstream. Secondly, this typology is used to evaluate and show the real aim of neo-liberal policies...
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