Thomas A. Stapleford
The Cost of Living in America
Thomas A. Stapleford
The Cost of Living in America
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Stapleford interweaves economic theory with political history to show why Americans vest so much authority in the Consumer Price Index.
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Stapleford interweaves economic theory with political history to show why Americans vest so much authority in the Consumer Price Index.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 440
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 633g
- ISBN-13: 9780521719247
- ISBN-10: 0521719240
- Artikelnr.: 26573285
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 440
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
- Gewicht: 633g
- ISBN-13: 9780521719247
- ISBN-10: 0521719240
- Artikelnr.: 26573285
Thomas Stapleford received his Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2003, where he studied the history of the social sciences. His dissertation, the basis for this book, won the Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Award from the History of Economics Society in 2004. Stapleford is currently an assistant professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame and was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2008-2009. He has published related work in the Journal of American History, Labor History, and Labor: Studies in the Working-Class History of the Americas. Research for this book was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Notre Dame Faculty Research Program, and the Harvard Center for American Political Studies.
Introduction; Note on terminology and technical theory; Part I. Statistics
and Labor Reform,1880-1930: 1. Before there were indexes: the 'labor
question' and labor statistics, 1884-1910; 2. The cost-of-living statistics
and industrial relations in the 1920s; Part II. Rationalizing the
Democratic Political Order, 1930-1960: 4. The nature of a revolution: the
Bureau of Labor Statistics from the bottom-up: union research on the cost
of living; 7. Bounded conflict: collective bargaining and the consumer
price index in the Cold War; Part III. The Consumer Price Index and the
Federal Government, 1960-2000: 8. Accounting for growth: macroeconomics
analysis and the transformation of price index theory; 9. From workers to
the welfare state: the consumer price index and the rise of indexation;
Epilogue: governance and economic statistics; Technical index: a brief
primer on cost-of-living indexes.
and Labor Reform,1880-1930: 1. Before there were indexes: the 'labor
question' and labor statistics, 1884-1910; 2. The cost-of-living statistics
and industrial relations in the 1920s; Part II. Rationalizing the
Democratic Political Order, 1930-1960: 4. The nature of a revolution: the
Bureau of Labor Statistics from the bottom-up: union research on the cost
of living; 7. Bounded conflict: collective bargaining and the consumer
price index in the Cold War; Part III. The Consumer Price Index and the
Federal Government, 1960-2000: 8. Accounting for growth: macroeconomics
analysis and the transformation of price index theory; 9. From workers to
the welfare state: the consumer price index and the rise of indexation;
Epilogue: governance and economic statistics; Technical index: a brief
primer on cost-of-living indexes.
Introduction; Note on terminology and technical theory; Part I. Statistics
and Labor Reform,1880-1930: 1. Before there were indexes: the 'labor
question' and labor statistics, 1884-1910; 2. The cost-of-living statistics
and industrial relations in the 1920s; Part II. Rationalizing the
Democratic Political Order, 1930-1960: 4. The nature of a revolution: the
Bureau of Labor Statistics from the bottom-up: union research on the cost
of living; 7. Bounded conflict: collective bargaining and the consumer
price index in the Cold War; Part III. The Consumer Price Index and the
Federal Government, 1960-2000: 8. Accounting for growth: macroeconomics
analysis and the transformation of price index theory; 9. From workers to
the welfare state: the consumer price index and the rise of indexation;
Epilogue: governance and economic statistics; Technical index: a brief
primer on cost-of-living indexes.
and Labor Reform,1880-1930: 1. Before there were indexes: the 'labor
question' and labor statistics, 1884-1910; 2. The cost-of-living statistics
and industrial relations in the 1920s; Part II. Rationalizing the
Democratic Political Order, 1930-1960: 4. The nature of a revolution: the
Bureau of Labor Statistics from the bottom-up: union research on the cost
of living; 7. Bounded conflict: collective bargaining and the consumer
price index in the Cold War; Part III. The Consumer Price Index and the
Federal Government, 1960-2000: 8. Accounting for growth: macroeconomics
analysis and the transformation of price index theory; 9. From workers to
the welfare state: the consumer price index and the rise of indexation;
Epilogue: governance and economic statistics; Technical index: a brief
primer on cost-of-living indexes.