Inflation

1. Introduction
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

2. What Is Inflation?
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

3. The Origins of Inflation Measurement: 1700–1879
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

4. What Is a Price Index?
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

5. The Development of the Cost of Living Index: 1880 to 1946
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

6. The Development of the Retail Prices Index: 1947–1989
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

7. What’s in the Basket?
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

8. Collecting Prices
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

9. Estimating Household Expenditure Shares
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

10. From the RPI to the CPI: 1990–2011
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

11. Measuring Inflation at a Detailed Level
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

12. What Should We Be Measuring?
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

13. Recent Developments: 2012–2016
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

14. Other Price Indices
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

15. A Look to the Future
Robert O’Neill, Jeff Ralph, Paul Smith

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic History, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Economic Systems, Public Finance