Conflicts in the calculation and use of the price index: the case of France.
This article presents a socio-economic analysis of the evolution of construction of inflation in France. Analysis of the various open or more muted controversies that underlie the history of the index throughout the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century shows that...
| Publicado en: | Cambridge Journal of Economics Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 963 - 987 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2018
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