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From: "Barbara S Stock" <>
Subject: relative costs past & present
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 23:39:18 -0400
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I have a great book in my home library entitled "The Value of a Dollar,
1860-1989" edited by Scott Derks and published in 1994 by Gale Research,
Inc., Detroit. I picked it up for $2 at a library book sale. I highly
recommend it if still in print. It gives prices for all sorts of things
over the years. I have found it very helpful in analysis for research
reports.

Barbara Smallwood Stock, CGRS
Marietta, GA

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You cannot get the actual cost of things, but you can find out the value of
a
dollar relative to today's dollar at
http://www.eh.net/hmit/ppowerusd/
which is the Economic History Resource Council (or similar name) If you use
estate inventories and sales, you can come up with some dollar amounts to
convert as well.

Connie Moretti
Redondo Beach, CA



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