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The celebrated economist Zvi Griliches's entire career can be viewed as an attempt to advance the cause of accuracy in economic measurement. His interest in the causes and consequences of technical progress led to his pathbreaking work on price hedonics, now the principal analytical technique available to account for changes in product quality. This book, a collection of papers from a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference held in Griliches's honor, is a tribute to his many contributions to current economic thought. Here, scholars of economic measurement address issues in the a ... More
Keywords: Zvi Griliches, accuracy, economic measurement, technical progress, price hedonics, product quality, NBER conference, new technologies, productivity, capital measurement
Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226044491 |
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226044507.001.0001 |
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