What Is Inflation and How Do We Measure It? Which

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What is inflation and how do we measure it? Which prices does each of the major price indexes actually measure? How can a price index be used to convert nominal output into real output?

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Definitions:

Etching

A kind of engraving in which the design is incised in a layer of wax or varnish on a metal plate. The parts of the plate left exposed are then etched (slightly eaten away) by the acid in which the plate is immersed after incising. See also drypoint, intaglio.

Engraving

The process of incising a design in hard material, often a metal plate (usually copper); also, the print or impression made from such a plate.

Vanishing Point

A point in the perspective drawing at which parallel lines receding from an observer seem to converge and at which they would meet if extended.

Moveable Type

A system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document.