Price and Quantity Trends in the Foreign Trade of the United States / / Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Herzfeld, Karl Ferdinand,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1918
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (506 p.)

The author relates U.S. export and import trends over the past four decades to changes in the domestic economy and in the trade of other countries.Originally published in 1963.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- National Bureau of Economic Research 1963 -- Relation of The Directors to The Work and Publications of The National Bureau of Economic Research -- Contents -- Tables -- Appendix Tables -- Charts -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Trends in Prices and Terms of Trade -- Chapter 2. Trends in Values and Quantities -- Chapter 3. NBER Indexes: Methods of Construction and Comparisons Among Them -- Chapter 4. Characteristics of Basic Foreign Trade Data -- Chapter 5. Sampling Characteristics and Accuracy of Index Numbers -- Chapter 6. Comparison of NBER Indexes with Others -- Appendixes -- Appendix A. Indexes and Values for Total Exports and Imports and Major Classes, 1879-1960 -- Appendix B. Indexes and Values for Intermediate Classes, 1879 - 1923 -- Appendix C. Indexes and Values for Minor Classes, 1879 - 1923, and Description of Composition and Sources of Data -- Appendix D Construction of Quarterly Interpolating Series for U.S. Department of Commerce Annual Import Price Indexes -- Appendix E. Data on Variability, Sampling Error, and Coverage -- Appendix F. Adjustments for Changes in the U.S. Customs Area -- Appendix G. Source Notes and Underlying Data for Charts and Tables -- Appendix H. Indexes of Terms of Trade and Other Price Ratios -- Author Index