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... significant consequences, because worries over the high cost of living more powerfully shaped Progressive era public policy than has been appreciated. Tariff reduction, parcel post, antitrust prosecution, cold storage legislation, farm credit, standardization of weights and measures, and other reforms were...

... to Anomalies: Full-Cost Pricing versus Preference Reversals Daniel M. Hausman and Philippe Mongin One feature of scientific disciplines historians and philosophers of sci­ ence have often studied is how members respond to apparent disconfirma- tions. This feature has attracted so much attention...

...Leland B. Yeager Gustav Cassel explained the interest rate as the price of a factor of production. Irving Fisher rejected Cassel’s contribution and, astonishingly, denied that interest measures any opportunity cost. References Blaug Mark . 1962 . Economic Theory in Retrospect...

...Cecilia T. Lanata Briones This article examines the first two estimates of the Argentine cost of living index, focusing on their producers, Alejandro Bunge and José Figuerola. The Bunge index, released in 1918, did not hold as a stable social and political artifact because it lacked legitimacy...

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...Elodie Bertrand One of Ronald Coase's insights was to extend the economic theory of choice to include the policy choice among institutional arrangements, which had to be analyzed with the same framework as the producer's choice. Both choices, he argued, are amenable to an opportunity-cost approach...