عنوان

The economics of new goods /

0226074188

9780226074184

0226074153

9780226074153

b793310

The economics of new goods /

[Book]

edited by Timothy F. Bresnahan and Robert J. Gordon.

Chicago :

University of Chicago Press,

©1997.

1 online resource (x, 494 pages) :

illustrations.

Studies in income and wealth ;

v. 58

"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].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Do real-output and real-wage measures capture reality? : the history of lighting suggests not / William D. Nordhaus -- Quality adjusted prices for the American automobile industry : 1906-1940 / Daniel M.G. Raff and Manuel Trajtenberg -- The welfare implications of invention / Walter Y. Oi -- Science, health, and household technology : the effect of the Pasteur revolution on consumer demand / Joel Mokyr and Rebecca Stein -- Valuation of new goods under perfect and imperfect competition / Jerry A. Hausman -- Bias in U.S. import prices and demand / Robert C. Feenstra and Clinton R. Shiells --The roles of marketing, product quality, and price competition in the growth and composition of the U.S. antiulcer drug industry / Ernst R. Berndt, et al. -- From superminis to supercomputers : estimating surplus in the computing market / Shane M. Greenstein -- New products and the U.S. consumer price index / Paul B. Armknecht, Walter F. Lane, and Kenneth J. Stewart -- The construction of basic components of cost-of-living indexes / Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Brent R. Moulton -- New goods from the perspective of price index making in Canada and Japan / Andrew Baldwin, et al.

0

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.

Economics of new goods.

Consumer price indexes, Congresses.

New products, Congresses.

Indice des prix à la consommation, Congrès.

Produits nouveaux, Congrès.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Industries-- General.

Consumenten.

Consumer price indexes.

New products.

Producten.

BUS-- 070000

Bresnahan, Timothy F.

Gordon, Robert J., (Robert James),1940-

National Bureau of Economic Research.

20201207062915.0

pn

[Book]

Y