Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons

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Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons Drew Hause #221603 03/14/11 12:40 PM
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,008 Gnomon Sidelock
Gnomon Sidelock Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 1,008	There is a way of determining relative value by using a technique that my historian friends often employ. When doing economic research in the 18th and 19th centuries they use the annual salary of a clergyman as a measuring rod. Apparently that remained fairly constant in terms of buying power. In the US we could use the salary of a member of congress; an Ivy-League professor; or a ship's captain as a metric. A working-man's income would be too regional and business-cycle dependent. These kinds of embedded metrics do away with the more ambiguous calculations that MarkOue struggled with a few posts above.

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Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Drew Hause	03/13/11 10:57 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	gjw	03/13/11 11:14 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	HammerGuy	03/14/11 01:02 AM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Tom Martin	03/14/11 02:42 AM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Drew Hause	03/14/11 03:23 AM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	L. Brown	03/14/11 11:34 AM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Mark Ouellette	03/14/11 11:11 AM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Drew Hause	03/14/11 02:28 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	treblig1958	03/14/11 03:52 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Gnomon	03/14/11 04:40 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Genelang	03/14/11 04:42 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Bob Blair	03/14/11 05:25 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Oldfarmer	03/14/11 07:10 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	tudurgs	03/14/11 07:42 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Drew Hause	03/14/11 07:54 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Gnomon	03/14/11 11:50 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Krakow Kid	03/15/11 01:30 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	L. Brown	03/16/11 12:07 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	S.I.T.	03/15/11 01:48 AM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	L. Brown	03/15/11 12:45 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	treblig1958	03/15/11 01:46 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Drew Hause	03/15/11 07:28 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Roy Hebbes	03/17/11 01:46 AM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	R.R.	03/15/11 08:53 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Drew Hause	03/16/11 08:21 PM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Drew Hause	03/17/11 02:28 AM
Re: Turn-of-the-century Price Comparisons	Drew Hause	03/21/11 06:14 PM

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