NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

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

Front matter, table of contents, prefatory note: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon (p. -11 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon (p. 1 - 26) (bibliographic info) (download)

1. Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not: William D. Nordhaus (p. 27 - 70) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Quality-Adjusted Prices for the American Automobile Industry: 1906-1940: Daniel M. G. Raff, Manuel Trajtenberg (p. 71 - 108) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. The Welfare Implications of Invention: Walter Y. Oi (p. 109 - 142) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Science, Health, and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution on Consumer Demand: Joel Mokyr, Rebecca Stein (p. 143 - 206) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Valuation of New Goods under Perfect and Imperfect Competition: Jerry A. Hausman (p. 207 - 248) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand: Robert C. Feenstra, Clinton R. Shiells (p. 249 - 276) (bibliographic info) (download)

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, Glen L. Urban (p. 277 - 328) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. From Superminis to Supercomputers: Estimating Surplus in the Computing Market: Shane M. Greenstein (p. 329 - 372) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. New Products and the U.S. Consumer Price Index: Paul A. Armknecht, Walter F. Lane, Kenneth J. Stewart (p. 373 - 396) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. The Construction of Basic Components of Cost-of-Living Indexes: Marshall B. Reinsdorf, Brent R. Moulton (p. 397 - 436) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. New Goods from the Perspective of Price Index Making in Canada and Japan: Andrew Baldwin, Pierre Despres, Alice Nakamura, Masao Nakamura (p. 437 - 476) (bibliographic info) (download)

List of Contributors, Indexes: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Robert J. Gordon (p. 477 - 496) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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