Essays in the theory and measurement of consumer behaviour : in honour of Sir Richard Stone /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Description:viii, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/454224
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Other authors / contributors:Stone, Richard, Sir, 1913-
Deaton, Angus
ISBN:0521225655
Notes:"Bibliography of Sir Richard Stone's works, 1936-79": p. 325-337.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The analysis of commodity demands: Introduction
  • 1. Some Engel curves
  • 2. Suggestions towards freeing systems of demand functions from a strait-jacket
  • 3. Theoretical and empirical approaches to consumer demand under rationing
  • 4. The independence transformation: a review and some further explorations
  • 5. The analysis of consumption and demand in the USSR
  • Part II. The theory of index numbers: Introduction
  • 6. On the constructability of consistent price indices between several periods simultaneously
  • 7. The economic theory of index numbers: a survey
  • Part III. The consumption function and durable goods: Introduction
  • 8. Testing neoclassical models of the demand for consumer durables
  • 9. Liquidity and inflation effects on consumers' expenditure
  • Part IV. Other aspects: fertility and labour supply: Introduction
  • 10. On labour supply and commodity demands
  • 11. Child spacing and numbers: an empirical analysis