One hundred years of price change: The Consumer Price Index and the American inflation experience

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 2014, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Reed, Stephen B ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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EID: 85022055640     PISSN: 00981818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21916/mlr.2014.14     Document Type: Article

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