In 2021 and in 2022, consumers bought only chocolate bars…

  In 2021 and in 2022, consumers bought only chocolate bars and bags of taffy, and the table shows the data.     The reference base period is 2021, and 2021 is also the year of the Consumer Expenditure Survey. Calculate the inflation rate in 2022. Round to one decimal.

The English economist William Stanley Jevons described a wor…

The English economist William Stanley Jevons described a world tour during the 1880s by a French​ singer, Mademoiselle Zelie. One stop on the tour was a theater in the Society​ Islands, part of French Polynesia in the South Pacific. She performed for her usual​ fee, which was​ one-third of the receipts. This turned out to be three​ pigs, 23​ turkeys, 44​ chickens, 5000​ coconuts, and​ “considerable quantities of​ bananas, lemons, and​ oranges.” She estimated that all of this would have had a value in France of 4000 francs. According to​ Jevons, “as Mademoiselle could not consume any considerable portion of the receipts​ herself, it became necessary in the meantime to feed the pigs and poultry with the​ fruit.”   (​Source: W. Stanley Jevons​, Money and the Mechanism of Exchange​, New​ York: D. Appleton and​ Company, 1889, pp.​ 1-2.) Do the goods Mademoiselle Zelie received as payment fulfill the three functions of money?