The economics of new goods / edited by Timothy F. Bresnahan and Robert J. Gordon.
New goods are at the heart of economic progress. The eleven essays in this volume include historical treatments of new goods and their diffusion; practical exercises in measurement addressed to recent and ongoing innovations; and real-world methods of devising quantitative adjustments for quality ch...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1997. |
| Series: | Studies in income and wealth ;
v. 58. |
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| Summary: | New goods are at the heart of economic progress. The eleven essays in this volume include historical treatments of new goods and their diffusion; practical exercises in measurement addressed to recent and ongoing innovations; and real-world methods of devising quantitative adjustments for quality change. The lead article in Part I contains a striking analysis of the history of light over two millenia. Other essays in Part I develop new price indexes for automobiles back to 1906; trace the role of the air conditioner in the development of the American south; and treat the germ theory of disease. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume contains revised versions of the papers and discussion presented at the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth entitled New Products : history, theory, methodology, and applications, held in Williamsburg, Virginia, on 29-30 April 1994. Conference participants also attended a preconference at the National Bureau of Economic Research in December 1993"--Page [ix]. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 494 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780226074184 0226074188 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |