The Consumer Price Index: Issues and Alternatives

Philip Cagan and Geoffrey Moore

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Abstract: “The Consumer Price Index: Issues and Alternatives,†by Phillip Cagan and Geoffrey H. Moore, assesses the merits and demerits of the Consumer Price Index in view of widespread criticisms that it has overstated the rate of inflation, especially as an index for escalating wages, social security, and federal pension payments.

Keywords: consumer price index; AEI Press; employee wages; AEI Archive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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