Hardcover, 190 pages
English language
Published 1998 by M.E. Sharpe.
One of the hottest debates in economics today is being waged over the accuracy of the consumer price index. The outcome of this debate will have enormous implications for national economic policy and the future of economic research. Getting Prices Right presents the work at the center of this debate - the report of the congressionally appointed Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index, popularly known as the Boskin Commission - and critically evaluates its findings and implications.
Good read. Refutation of Boskin Commission report (1997 or so, which it includes) which claimed that the CPI overstates inflation. Only recommend to people who study economics or those really interested in inflation or those who suffer from the delusion that economists are disinterested observers and economics is anything near a hard science.
Good read. Refutation of Boskin Commission report (1997 or so, which it includes) which claimed that the CPI overstates inflation. Only recommend to people who study economics or those really interested in inflation or those who suffer from the delusion that economists are disinterested observers and economics is anything near a hard science.
