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- From: hauser@statrix2.wu-wien.ac.at (Michi Hauser)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: . . . in WWII Dollars
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:34:10 GMT
- Organization: University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna
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- References: <92363.190800RHG@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec29.194554.22256@cas.org>
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- In article 190800RHG@psuvm.psu.edu, <RHG@psuvm.psu.edu> () writes:
- (If an item cost $1,000 in 1945, how much would it cost today?)
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- Reference:
- U.S. Department of Commerce. Historical Statistics of the United States,
- Colonial Times to 1970, Washington: Bur. Census, 1975.
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- Another measure for comparing the expenses in different periods, which
- does not depend on the nominal price level, is the proportion of the whole
- income (for the U.S. the GNP) spent for some items then and now.
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