The price index and its extension : a chapter in economic measurement / S.N. Afriat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Afriat, S. N., 1925-

Series:

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 65.

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Price indexes.

Index numbers (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book is not an unrestricted survey engaging a vast and repetative literature, but a systematic treatise within clear boundaries, largely a document of Afriat's own work. The original motive of the work is to elaborate a concept of what really is a price index, which, despite some kind of price-level notion having a presence throughout economics, in theory and practice, had been missing.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; LASPEYRES, PAASCHE AND FISHER; Introduction

theory and practice; Three problems; The general problem of limits; The homogeneous problem

Laspeyres and Paasche; Fisher and quadratics; Appendix; THE COST OF LIVING; Price and quantity levels; The True Index; Fisher and Byushgens; The Four-Point Formula; Wald's ""New Formula""; APPENDICES; The system of inequalities arsxsxr. Research Memorandum No. 18 (October 1960), Econometric Research Program, Princeton University. Proc. Cambridge Phil Soc. 59 (1963), 125-33

The construction of utility functions from expenditure data. Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 144 (October 1964), Yale University. First World Congress of the Econometric Society, Rome, SeptembeThe concept of a price index and its extension. Second World Congress of the Econometric Society, Cambridge, September 1970; The Theory of International Comparisons of Real Income and Prices. In International Comparisons of Prices and Output, Proceedings of the Conference at York University, Toronto, 1970, edited by D.J.Dal

Measurement of the purchasing power of incomes with linear expansion data. Journal of Econometrics 2, 3 (1974), 343-64On the constructability of consistent price indices between several periods simultaneously. In Essays in Theory and Measurement of Demand: in honour of Sir Richard Stone, edited by Angus Deaton. Cambr; Index-number practice under conditions of hyperinflation

with particular reference to Peru. International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, 1991; Notation; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-417) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-35864-4

1-134-35865-2

0-429-23046-X

0-203-68303-X

1-280-10530-5

0-203-35651-9

9780429230462

OCLC:

437061231