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Consumer Expenditures: New Measures and Old Motives
Stanley Lebergott
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Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 300 pages, 47 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
Changing consumer choices have built microchip factories where cotton fields used to be and have doomed cities from New Bedford to Detroit, while the impact of these choices on jobs and tax revenues has stimulated the creation of models of consumer behavior. Even finely tuned econometric models, however, have not served well as guides for policy choices, for they have relied chiefly on data for the Great Depression and the Cold War era or on biased budget surveys. Stanley Lebergott here provides the way to greater realism with new data for the entire twentieth century, including the decades of peacetime ... Read more
Changing consumer choices have built microchip factories where cotton fields used to be and have doomed cities from New Bedford to Detroit, while the impact of these choices on jobs and tax revenues has stimulated the creation of models of consumer behavior. Even finely tuned econometric models, however, have not served well as guides for policy choices, for they have relied chiefly on data for the Great Depression and the Cold War era or on biased budget surveys. Stanley Lebergott here provides the way to greater realism with new data for the entire twentieth century, including the decades of peacetime ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691630960
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V9780691630960
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Reviews for Consumer Expenditures: New Measures and Old Motives
"Consumer expenditures is a must for anyone employing twentieth-century American consumption data. It should be read by anyone studying household spending patterns more generally, for Lebergott's embodiment of tastes in the empirical analysis. And its first eight chapters are fun for anyone looking for wit and humour in our often dry field of economic history."
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