The Economics of New Goods
Timothy F. Bresnahan and Robert J. Gordon, editors
Published in January 1996 by University of Chicago Press
© 1997 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
in NBER Book Series Studies in Income and Wealth
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494 pages
ISBN: 0-226-07415-3
Table of Contents
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Front matter, table of contents, prefatory note:
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon
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Introduction:
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon
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Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not:
William D. Nordhaus
(p. 27 - 70)
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Quality-Adjusted Prices for the American Automobile Industry: 1906-1940:
Daniel M. G. Raff, Manuel Trajtenberg
(p. 71 - 108)
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The Welfare Implications of Invention:
Walter Y. Oi
(p. 109 - 142)
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Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand:
Joel Mokyr, Rebecca Stein
(p. 143 - 206)
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Valuation of New Goods under Perfect and Imperfect Competition:
Jerry A. Hausman
(p. 207 - 248)
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Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand:
Robert C. Feenstra, Clinton R. Shiells
(p. 249 - 276)
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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, Glen L. Urban
(p. 277 - 328)
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From Superminis to Supercomputers: Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market:
Shane M. Greenstein
(p. 329 - 372)
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New Products and the U.S. Consumer Price Index:
Paul A. Armknecht, Walter F. Lane, Kenneth J. Stewart
(p. 373 - 396)
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The Construction of Basic Components of Cost-of-Living Indexes:
Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brent R. Moulton
(p. 397 - 436)
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New Goods from the Perspective of Price Index Making in Canada and Japan:
Andrew Baldwin, Pierre Despres, Alice Nakamura, Masao Nakamura
(p. 437 - 476)
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List of Contributors, Indexes:
Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon
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