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However, Eckstein added that even with controls the consumer price index will probably rise 8.9 per cent this year because of the energy shortage, rising wages, higher food prices, and industrial price increases...
James S. Duesenberry, Maier Professor of Money and Banking, said yesterday that most economists were expecting "at least another 7 per cent" increase in the consumer price index, but he added that it is difficult to predict...
Three Parts. The solution was provided by Britannica Editor and Author Mortimer Adler, founder-president of the Institute for Philosophical Research, a man who has never been intimidated by the task of organizing and compiling the total of human knowledge. His 1952 Syntopticon, an index to EB's 54-volume Great Books of the Western World, catalogued everything of note the authors had to say about the 102 Great Ideas of Western Civilization. Adler divided the encyclopaedia into three separate parts, which he named with the pseudoclassic neologisms: the Propaedia, Macropaedia and Micropaedia (meaning before, great and little learning...
...start of the year, the consensus among TIME'S board members and most other economists was that the G.N.P. deflator, the broadest index of inflation in the economy, would rise about 3.5%. CEA Chairman Herbert Stein predicted 3%. Actually, the deflator rose by more than 5.5%, the biggest peacetime jump in a quarter-century...
...consumer price index soared more than 8%, a rate of inflation considerably worse than during the Viet Nam War. Food prices, the most troublesome villain, climbed by 20% for the year...