The Economics of New Goods
504 pages
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51 line drawings, 70 tables
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6 x 9
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© 1996
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Table of Contents
Contents
Prefatory Note
Introduction
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon.
1: Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not
William D. Nordhaus
Comment: Charles R. Hulten
2: Quality-Adjusted Prices for the American Automobile Industry: 1906-1940
Daniel M. G. Raff, Manuel Trajtenberg.
Comment: Jack E. Triplett
3: The Welfare Implications of Invention
Walter Y. Oi
4: Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand
Joel Mokyr, Rebecca Stein.
Comment: John C. Brown
5: Valuation of New Goods under Perfect and Imperfect Competition
Jerry A. Hausman
Comment: Timothy F. Bresnahan
6: Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand
Robert C. Feenstra, Clinton R. Shiells.
Comment: Zvi Griliches
7: The Roles of Marketing, Product Quality, and Price Competition in the Growth and Composition of the U.S. Antiulcer Drug Industry
Ernst R. Berndt, Linda T. Bui, David H. Lucking-Reiley et. al.
Comment: Valerie Y. Suslow
8: From Superminis to Supercomputers: Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market
Shane M. Greenstein
Comment: Erik Brynjolfsson
9: New Products and the U.S. Consumer Price Index
Paul A. Armknecht, Walter F. Lane, Kenneth J. Stewart.
Comment: Frank C. Wykoff
10: The Construction of Basic Components of Cost-of-Living Indexes
Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brent R. Moulton.
Comment: W. E. Diewert
11: New Goods from the Perspective of Price Index Making in Canada and Japan
Andrew Baldwin, Pierre Despres, Alice Nakamura et. al.
Comment: Robert Summers
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index
Introduction
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon.
1: Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not
William D. Nordhaus
Comment: Charles R. Hulten
2: Quality-Adjusted Prices for the American Automobile Industry: 1906-1940
Daniel M. G. Raff, Manuel Trajtenberg.
Comment: Jack E. Triplett
3: The Welfare Implications of Invention
Walter Y. Oi
4: Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand
Joel Mokyr, Rebecca Stein.
Comment: John C. Brown
5: Valuation of New Goods under Perfect and Imperfect Competition
Jerry A. Hausman
Comment: Timothy F. Bresnahan
6: Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand
Robert C. Feenstra, Clinton R. Shiells.
Comment: Zvi Griliches
7: The Roles of Marketing, Product Quality, and Price Competition in the Growth and Composition of the U.S. Antiulcer Drug Industry
Ernst R. Berndt, Linda T. Bui, David H. Lucking-Reiley et. al.
Comment: Valerie Y. Suslow
8: From Superminis to Supercomputers: Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market
Shane M. Greenstein
Comment: Erik Brynjolfsson
9: New Products and the U.S. Consumer Price Index
Paul A. Armknecht, Walter F. Lane, Kenneth J. Stewart.
Comment: Frank C. Wykoff
10: The Construction of Basic Components of Cost-of-Living Indexes
Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brent R. Moulton.
Comment: W. E. Diewert
11: New Goods from the Perspective of Price Index Making in Canada and Japan
Andrew Baldwin, Pierre Despres, Alice Nakamura et. al.
Comment: Robert Summers
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index
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