Sunday, January 5, 8:30–10:30 a.m.
American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions
121. Creating the "Cost of Living": Consumption and American Political Economy
Hilton, Williford Room B
Chair: Mary O. Furner, University of California at Santa Barbara
Papers: Inventing Value: From Hard Money to Virtual Dollars,
1897–1937
Eric Rauchway, University of California at Davis
"Workers and Their Families Do Not Eat Statistics": Labor and the
Cost-of-Living Index
Thomas A. Stapleford, Harvard University
"Inflation—The Permanent Dilemma": Debates over the Cost of Living in
Postwar America
Meg Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Comment: Susan B. Levine, University of Illinois at Chicago
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