Inflation should no longer be a politically sensitive indicator. Indeed, since the early 1980s, macroeconomic policies have managed to contain it. Yet the consumer price index (CPI), which is the main indicator for measuring inflation, remains very frequently consulted by citizens, due to its...

Introduction -- 1.What is a Price Index - Statistical Approach -- 2. A Political Economy of the Price Index, 1913-1990 -- 3. The European Turning Point -- 4. The Quality Effect -- 5. From Consumer Prices to the 'Cost of Living' -- 6. The Reform of “Checkout Data” -- 7. Under or...

This chapter trains a spotlight on a hybrid collective made up of academics and activists involved in the development of new indicators of wealth, known in French as the Forum pour d’Autres Indicateurs de Richesse (FAIR). Some ten or so authors of studies critical of growth published in the...

The growth of the services sector has profoundly transformed developed societies, their economic characteristics, their occupational structures, and even their political priorities and value systems. No comprehensive theory of his growth exists, but for three centuries a number of major...

Written by some of the most distinguished authors in the field, this book elucidates the critical and complex relationships between services, production and innovation. The authors discuss the limitations of current theories to explain service productivity and innovation, and call for a...

[fre] Emploi et marchés du travail d'un secteur quelles comparaisons internationales ? . S'appuyer sur des comparaisons internationales pour analyser les questions d'emploi et de marchés du travail ne peut se faire que si l'on admet la complexité et la diversité des déterminants de l'emploi...