ABSTRACT
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Laspeyres, Paasche and Fisher
part |2 pages
Part II The Cost of Living
part |2 pages
Appendices
chapter 1|2 pages
The system of inequalities ars > xs − xr . Research Memorandum No. 18 (October 1960), Econometric Research Program, Princeton University. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 59 (1963), 125–33
ResearchProgram,PrincetonUniversity.Proc.
chapter 2|2 pages
The construction of utility functions from expenditure data
University. First World Congress of the Econometric Society, Rome, September 1965.
chapter 3|8 pages
The concept of a price index and its extension. Second World Congress of the Econometric Society, Cambridge,
Second World Congress of the Econometric Society, Cambridge, September 1970.
chapter 4|2 pages
, edited by D. J. Daly. National Bureau of Economic Research, Studies in Income and Wealth Volume 37, New York, 1972 (Ch. I, 13–84)
edited by D. J. Daly. National Bureau of Economic Research, Studies in Income and Wealth Volume 37, New York, 1972 (Ch. I, 13–84).
chapter 6|2 pages
On 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. Cambridge University Press, 1981, 133–61
editedbyAngusDeaton. CambridgeUniversityPress, 1981, 133–61.
chapter 7|2 pages
Index-number practice under conditions of hyperinflation—with particular reference to Peru. International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, 1991
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, 1991.
