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INTERNET RESOURCES:
Chapter 20: Measuring the
Macroeconomy
Web assignments:
- GDP
- The Savings Rate
- Human Development Index
Web materials related to topics discussed in Chapter 20
- Bureau
of Economic Analysis National Accounts Data
- This page contains the most recently released
information on the U.S. national income accounts.
- Consumer
Price Index: Most Recent Release
- This page contains the most recent official release
of CPI data.
- The
Consumer Price Index -- Why the Published Averages Don't
Always Match An Individual's Inflation Experience
- This document, provided by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, explains how the CPI is computed and why
individual consumers may experience very different
changes in their "cost of living."
- "Economic
Theory and BEA's Alternative Quantity and Price
Indexes" (by Jack Triplett)
- This article contains a good, though somewhat
technical, description of the choice between
fixed-weighted and chain-weighted price indexes.
- Macroeconomic Data Sites
- This page contains links to a wide variety of online
sources of current and historical macroeconomic data.
- Purchasing
Power Parity
- The World Resources Institute provides this good
discussion of how purchasing power parity currency values
are used for international GDP comparisons.
Related resources:
- Other economic resources
- This page contains a set of links to economic
resources that may be of interest to introductory
economics students.
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