摘要
这家外部性极强的企业正在改写商业规则有没有哪家商业组织敢于提供与国家统计局相悖的消费者价格指数(CPI)?中国最大的互联网零售平台淘宝网就这么做了。
China's largest online retail marketplace Taobao.com is the first business organization to release China's consumer price index (CPI) of online shopping. It launched the "Taobao CPI" in early July, and released the figures of the first six months of 2008.In contrast to the surging official CPI released by China's National Statistics Bureau, Taobao CPI has shown a constant downward trend so far this year. Yet the website explained that the two types of CPI both reflected the real consuming situations of diff...