WSJ piece on hedonic price adjustments

05/19/2005 Mises Wire Jeffrey A. Tucker

A number of people have been interested in this piece from the WSJ on hedonic price adjustments (May 9, 2005). A member sent this open link. Rothbard's critique of index numbers is here.

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