Das Statistische Amt der Europäischen Union veröffentlicht jeden Monat den harmonisierten Verbraucherpreis­index für das Euro-Währungsgebiet. Der Beitrag diskutiert die aktuelle Teuerung und zeigt den Einfluss von staatlich administrierten Preisen und indirekter Besteuerung. Zudem wird auf...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: My Friend the Beast (Stephen Morris) -- Preface -- Foreword: The New Village Green (Paul Freundlich) -- Foreword: The New Village People -- Foreword: The New Village Library -- Ch1 : The Gaia Hypothesis -- Ch2 : Silent Spring -- Ch3 : The Limits to...

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conceptual Foundations for Price and Cost-of-Living Indexes -- 3 Index Domain -- 4 Evolving Market Baskets: Adjusting Indexes to Account for Quality Change -- 5 New Goods and New Outlets -- 6 The Special Case...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. ELEMENTARY INDEX NUMBER FORMULAS, THEIR USE AND JUSTIFICATION -- III. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE JEVONS AND DUTOT FORMULAS -- IV. EMPIRICAL WORK -- V. IMPLICATIONS FOR CPI COMPILATION -- VI. SUMMARY -- Data Annex.

When did Europe pull ahead of Asia in terms of living standards? A number of well-known scholars compare economic and demographic indicators of well-being in the pre-industrial period. The emerging picture is not one of great differences, but of considerable similarities in standard of living...

This volume contains twelve papers by Robert Pollak--four previously unpublished--that explore the theory of the cost-of-living index. In addition to Pollak's classic paper "The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index, the book includes papers on subindexes, the intertemporal and social...