CPI,Cost of Living and Politics

• 作者: 赵忠德
• 来源期刊: 英语知识
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 2000,（9）
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: H319.4

摘要

All economic decisions are made basedupon statistics,which are supposed to comefrom facts in real life.However,people aresometimes baffled by the conclusions drawnfrom different statistics,which present differ-ent pictures of our lives and society.Consumer Price Index(CPI),one of theprice indexes that government normally usesto judge the cost of living,measures the pricesof a fixed market basket of some 300 con-sumer goods and services purchased by a“typ-ical”urban consumer(McConnell & Brue,p.