Front Matter
(pp. 1–2)
Journal of Economic Perspectives
ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)
Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter 1998
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Consumer Prices, the Consumer Price Index, and the Cost of Living
(pp. 3–26)
Working to Improve the Consumer Price Index
(pp. 27–36)
Getting Prices Right: What Should Be Done?
(pp. 37–46)
Index Number Issues in the Consumer Price Index
(pp. 47–58)
Quality Change in Price Indexes
(pp. 59–68)
The Consumer Price Index: A Research Agenda and Three Proposals
(pp. 69–78)
Did We Lose the War on Poverty?
(pp. 79–96)
Has Poverty Gotten Worse?
(pp. 97–114)
Job Displacement
(pp. 115–136)
Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children
(pp. 137–156)
Rankings of U.S. Economics Departments
(pp. 157–170)
Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas, Jr.: Architect of Modern Macroeconomics
(pp. 171–186)
Data Watch: The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study Household Surveys
(pp. 187–196)
Retrospectives: Price Indexes and General Exchange Values
(pp. 197–205)
Classroom Games: Speculation and Bubbles in an Asset Market
(pp. 207–218)
Policy Watch: The Introduction of Indexed Government Debt in the United States
(pp. 219–227)
Recommendations for Further Reading
(pp. 229–236)
Correspondence
(pp. 237–242)
Notes
(pp. 243–246)