Innis

The economist gives you doctrine. Core CPI. Trimmed means. Hedonic quality adjustments. A number worked and reworked in committee until it holds still. Tung-shan would not answer this way. He would show you eggs that cost two dollars and then five. A house that takes ten years of wages instead of three. The grocery bill your mother looks at and does not recognise as the grocery bill. That is the weight. Not the doctrine. The weight on the scale at this particular moment in your particular life.