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Financial Times reporter Tim Harford writes about the Billion Prices Project, which was started by Profs. Alberto Cavallo and Roberto Rigobon in an effort to better understand inflation by gathering price data from online retailers. Harford writes that the project’s “approach to inflation is also helping us to understand the fundamental question of why recessions happen.”

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