Internet resources
Chapter 6: National Income Accounting
Web assignments:
- GDP
- The CPI and an Individual's Cost of Living
- Human Development Index
Web materials related to topics discussed in Chapter 6
- Bureau of Economic Analysis National Accounts Data
- This page contains the most recently released information on the U.S. national income accounts.
- Consumer Price Index: Most Recent Release
- This page contains the most recent official release of CPI data.
- CPI page provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- This site provides extensive information about the construction of the CPI and discusses problems
in measuring price level changes.
- "Economic Theory and BEA's Alternative Quantity and Price Indexes" (by Jack Triplett)
- This article contains a good, though somewhat technical, description of the choice between fixed-weighted and chain-weighted price indexes.
- Macroeconomic Data Sites
- This page contains links to a wide variety of online sources of current and historical macroeconomic data.
- Purchasing Power Parity
- The World Resources Institute provides this good discussion of how purchasing power parity currency values are used for international GDP comparisons.
Related resources:
- Other economic resources
- This page contains a set of links to economic resources that may be of interest to introductory economics students.
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