03990oam 2200673I 450 991045096540332120200520144314.01-134-35865-20-429-23046-X0-203-68303-X1-280-10530-50-203-35651-910.4324/9780203356517 (CKB)1000000000255183(EBL)200513(OCoLC)437061231(SSID)ssj0000306799(PQKBManifestationID)11274914(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306799(PQKBWorkID)10307917(PQKB)11079168(MiAaPQ)EBC200513(Au-PeEL)EBL200513(CaPaEBR)ebr10161927(CaONFJC)MIL10530(OCoLC)1000443877(EXLCZ)99100000000025518320180331d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe price index and its extension a chapter in economic measurement /S.N. AfriatLondon ;New York :Routledge,2005.1 online resource (452 p.)Routledge frontiers of political economy ;65Description based upon print version of record.0-415-65264-2 0-415-32337-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-417) and index.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), 125-33The 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.DalMeasurement 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; IndexThe 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.Routledge frontiers of political economy ;65.Price indexesIndex numbers (Economics)Electronic books.Price indexes.Index numbers (Economics)338.5/28Afriat S. N.1925,102955FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910450965403321The price index and its extension1930370UNINA