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Per,

I remember a broadcast not too long ago on Public Radio where they
interviewed the person who invented the Big Mac index.  It was All Things
Considered or Marketplace or...I'm not sure...  Those shows become a blur in
your head after a long day at work!  Try these two websites and search the
archives: www.npr.org; www.pri.org

I remember in the interview how the economists were saying it was a better
indicator than the most usual data and when the Euro was launched the Big
Mac predicted reality better than the "experts"!  If you can find the
broadcast they might link you to the originating institution/people.

Dante

Dante Centuori
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COSI Toledo
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Many colleagues say they compare their ticket prices to those of cinemas,
theme parks and Big Mac. Do you happen to have any compilation of such
statistics, like, e.g. any data on Big Mac Indexes (ticket price/local price
of Big Mac)?? Do you know anyone who has made this kind of comparison? Do
you know any existing compilation?


Dr. Per-Edvin Persson
Director
Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre
POB 166
FIN 013101 Vantaa, Finland
Tel. + 358 98579201 Fax + 358 98579301 Mob + 358 40 9015200

www.heureka.fi

Politics is for the moment, while an equation is for eternity.

Albert Einstein

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KESKO

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