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Article #686Re: . . . in WWII Dollars
From: Michi Hauser
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:34
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:34
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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?) Reference: U.S. Department of Commerce. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Washington: Bur. Census, 1975. 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. ________________ Michael Hauser University of Economics and Business Adminstration Department for Applied Statistics and Data Processing Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria Tel. *43/1/31336 4759 email: hauser@wu-wien.ac.at
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at!statrix2!hauser 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 Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1hsfhiINNrqi@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> References: <92363.190800RHG@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec29.194554.22256@cas.org> Reply-To: hauser@wu-wien.ac.at NNTP-Posting-Host: statrix2.wu-wien.ac.at