Perkins teaches us how to be productionists in our own back garden on the heels of WWI, while Mosby explores the whys and wherefores of household production in the second world war.

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Women’s Household Work to Be Added to US CPI Consumption Survey Surveys that provide key information for consumer-spending measures may soon reflect household work that is overwhelmingly done by women.

Bloomberg gets our report hilariously wrong (it has nothing to do with CPI, btw):
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Integrating Nonmarket Consumption into the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey | Levy Economics Institute The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is a non-profit, nonpartisan, public policy think tank

We have a new report out at both the Levy and BLS websites:
Integrating Nonmarket Consumption into the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey
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