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The price index and its extension : a chapter in economic measurement /

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 pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Afriat, S. N., 1925-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 65.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
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  • 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