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Part 1: Purchasing Power Parity: Origin and Use -- Chapter 1: Salamancans and Gerard Malynes -- Chapter 2: Gustav Cassel -- Chapter 3: Purchasing Power Parity in Economic History -- Chapter 4: Afterword to Part I -- Part 2: Purchasing Power Parity: Empirical Studies -- Chapter 5: Absolute and Relative Purchasing Power Parity -- Chapter 6: Law of One Price -- Chapter 7: National Price Level -- Chapter 8: Afterword to Part II -- Part 3: Standard of Living -- Chapter 9: Value of Consumer Bundle -- Chapter 10: Consumer Price Index -- Chapter 11: Compensation of Manufacturing Workers -- Chapter 12: Afterword to Part III -- Part 4: Fixed-Rate Monetary Standards -- Chapter 13: Metallic Standards -- Chapter 14: Classical Gold Standard -- Chapter 15: Bretton Woods System -- Chapter 16: Afterword to Part IV -- Part 5: Anglo-American Monetary Standards -- Chapter 17: American Monetary Standard -- Chapter 18: British Monetary Standard -- Chapter 19: Afterword to Part V -- Part 6: Monetary-Standard Behavior -- Chapter 20: Bullionist Periods -- Chapter 21: Dollar-Sterling Exchange Market -- Chapter 22: U.S. Specie Standard -- Chapter 23: Afterword to Part VI -- Part 7: Economics in Alternative Scenarios -- Chapter 24: Economics and Economic History in Science Fiction. .

Lawrence H. Officer is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Among his many publications are three other books published by Palgrave: A New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790-1919 (2021); Everyday Economics (2009); and Two Centuries of Compensation for U.S. Production Workers in Manufacturing (2009). This book is the culmination of and a collection of distinguished scholar Lawrence Officers principal research over 50 years of scholarly activity. The collection consists primarily of three topics on which the author has spent the major part of his research: purchasing power parity, standard of living, and monetary standards. There is also a unique chapter on economics and economic history in science fiction. This volume is ideal for academics, graduate and undergraduate students, and practitioners.

This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H. Officer in a systematic way. The result is an authoritative treatment of such issues as market structure and economic efficiency where more than one characteristic of a commodity is priced, both in general and in application to shipping conferences; financing of the United Nations and International Monetary Fund; monetary history of the UK and US; and central-bank preferences between gold and dollars, The book first examines multidimensional pricing, defined as pricing when a commodity or service has several characteristics th

Geld und Co einfach erklärt - Ökonomische Prinzipien spielen in allen Bereichen unseres Lebens eine Rolle. Daher gilt: Wer die Welt im 21. Jahrhundert verstehen will, muss die Ökonomie verstehen! Dieses Buch leistet genau das: Es liefert grundlegendes Wissen über die Funktionsweise der Wirtschaft. US-Ökonom Lawrence H. Officer spannt dabei einen Bogen von den Finanzmärkten über die Globalisierung bis hin zu den persönlichen Finanzen. Auf einfache Fragen gibt Officer auch und gerade für Laien verständliche und erhellende Antworten, die ohne abschreckende Fachterminologie auskommen. Ein Buch für jeden, der sich die Grundlagen der Wirtschaft aneignen will.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide long‐run annual series of the value of the consumer bundle and related variables.Design/methodology/approachBenchmark data are assembled for each of the variables. Interpolative techniques are used to obtain values for missing years.FindingsContinuous annual series for 1900‐2004 are developed for value of the consumer bundle, number of consumer units, and average size of the consumer unit. Behavior of the series over time is consistent with what economic and demographic experience would suggest.Originality/valueGeneration of long‐run series as extensions of aggregate‐type data in the Consumer Expenditure Survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.