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Henry Ford paid his workers $5 a day in 1914. If the CPI was 10 in 1914 and 237 in 2015, how much is the Ford paycheck worth in 2015 dollars?

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ISBN: 9781337091985
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N. Gregory Mankiw
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9781337091985

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