6. Big Mac Index
Country Currency Price Rate Dollars
Phillipines Peso 140 0.019 $2.66
Vietnam Dong 65,000 0.000043 $2.80
China Yuan 20.50 0.15 $3.08
Saudi Arabia Riyal 12 0.265 $3.18
Switzerland Franc 6.5 1.0 $6.50
18. 2018 8.3 hours 1 day
1980 196 hours 24 days
Reduced
95.8%
187.7
Hours
Saved
24x
19. 1997 2017
Increased by 200%
You only get 1/3 of
a textbook
Time Price
decreased
by 96.0%
You get 25 TVs
College
Textbooks
In the past 20
years textbooks
have become 75
times more
expensive relative
to TVs
25 ÷ .33 = 75
TV
43. 1980 2017
Percentage
Change Source or Equation
Nominal Price $0.40 $0.81 102.5% World Bank
GDP per Capita $2,516 $10,495 317.1% World Bank
Hours Worked 2,168 1,964 -9.4% The Conference Board
GDP per Capita
per Hour
$1.16 $5.34 360.5%
GDP per Capita ÷ Hours
Worked
Time Price in
Hours
0.345 0.152 -56.0%
Nominal Price ÷ GDP per
Capita per Hour
Time Price in
Minutes
21 9 -56.0% Time Price in Hours x 60
55. Price Elasticity of Population
1980 - 2017
= - 0.934
For every one percent increase in
population, prices declined almost one
percent
- 64.7%
=
%∆ in Time Prices
%∆ in Population +69.3%
57. In 1980 you invite 100 guests for dinner
The cost per guest is $10
The bill is $1,000
In 2017 you invite 69 percent more guests but the
cost per guest has fallen by 65 percent.
What is the bill?
169 x $3.50
= $591.50
Your bill has fallen by over 40 percent