Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-36

  Abraham, Katharine G ^a   Greenlees, John S ^a   Moulton, Brent R ^b  

^a United States Department of Labor   (United States)

^b Bureau of Economic Analysis   (United States)

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EID: 0009283820     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.12.1.27     Document Type: Article

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