Since 1900, consumers have enjoyed a dramatic explosion in the number and quality of goods available. This column discusses a simple method for quantifying welfare gains from the introduction of new goods into the economy and their subsequent quality improvements using the personal computer as an example.
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1 - 2 April 2020 / University of Orléans (France) / LEO CNRS - University of Orléans (France)
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20 - 23 April 2020 / Guildford, Surrey, UK / University of Surrey
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23 - 23 April 2020 / Madrid, Spain / IE Business School
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23 - 24 April 2020 / Bratislava, Slovakia / National Bank of Slovakia in cooperation with CompNet
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8 - 9 May 2020 / Princeton, NJ / International Economics Section at the Department of Economics of Princeton University
