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Consumer Expenditures : New Measures and Old Motives /

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, how...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lebergott, Stanley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 316
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTEΝTS
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • PART ONE
  • CHAPTER ONE. Measures of Weil-Being: Income versus Consumption
  • CHAPTER TWO. Was the Great Depression Driven by Consumption?
  • CHAPTER THREE. Did Underconsumption End the Boom of the 1920s?
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Mass Consumption and "Americanization"
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Elite's Share of Consumption: U.S. versus USSR
  • PART TWO
  • CHAPTER SIX. Beyond the Consumption Function
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Tastes-and Other Determinants of Consumption
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Why State Consumption Patterns Differ
  • PART THREE
  • Chapter NINE. Estimating Procedures: U.S. Consumption, 1900-1929
  • CHAPTER TEN. State Consumption, 1900-1982: Estimating Procedures for Appendix B
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Validity of Estimates
  • APPENDIXES
  • A. U.S. Estimates
  • B. State Estimates
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index