links for 2006-05-09

~ Matt Armstrong
  • How Much Is That Worth Today? | EH.Net
    Comparing the purchasing power of money in Great Britain from 1264 to 2005
    (tags: Research)
  • Current Value of Old Money
    Comparisons of purchasing power are only reliable over short periods. A typical computer in 2006 is a very different machine from its counterpart of 5 years ago. Indices of inflation fail to take proper account of improvements in quality.
    (tags: Research)
  • Indexes & Archive of Studies in Intelligence
    Articles by the intelligence community on the intelligence community in one place.
    (tags: intelligence reference)

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3 thoughts on “links for 2006-05-09”

  1. hedonics allows for quality improvements in the calculation of price increases… currently the BLS applies hedonic methods to its inflation analysis. just an FYI.

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