How much is that in real money? : a historical commodity price index for use as a deflator of money values in the economy of the United States / by John J. McCusker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCusker, John J., author.

Contributor:

American Antiquarian Society, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prices--United States--History.

Prices.

Consumer price indexes--United States--History.

Consumer price indexes.

Money--United States--History.

Money.

Value.

History.

United States.

Value--History.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

142 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition, revised and enlarged.

Place of Publication:

Worcester, MA : American Antiquarian Society, 2001.

Contents:

How Much Is That In Real Money? 13

Appendix A Commodity Price Indexes, United States, 1665-2000 41

Appendix B Rates of Exchange

The Relationships of the Currencies of the Continental Colonies to Great Britain and to Each Other, 1649-1775 61

Appendix C Currency in the United States during the American Revolutionary War and the Early National Period 71

Appendix D Commodity Price Indexes, Great Britain, 1600-2000 89

Appendix E Periods of Expansion and Contraction in the Economy of the United States, 1665-1853 107.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck copy has printout of E-Mail laid in.

ISBN:

1929545010

OCLC:

45871060