The Economic Theory of Price Indices
Two Essays on the Effects of Taste, Quality, and Technological Change
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1972
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Franklin M. Fisher, Karl Shell
- Editor: Karl Shell
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 3 8 8 5 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 1 1 5 - 6
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Request a sales quoteThe Economic Theory of Price Indices: Two Essays on the Effects of Taste, Quality, and Technological Change is concerned with the effects of consumer taste, product quality, and technological change on price indices. Special attention is paid on technological change in the simple two-sector production model of Rybczynski and Uzawa. The effects of the general case of changing factor supplies and factor-augmenting change on the real national output deflator are also examined. Comprised of two essays, this book begins with an analysis of the pure theory of the true cost-of-living index, which may be considered as an idealization of indices like the consumer price index and others of that type. The essay explores how the true cost-of-living index is affected by changes in consumer taste, quality changes in purchased goods, and the introduction of new goods into the market place. The second essay deals with the pure theory of the national output deflator and provides a foundation for the measurement of real national output (or product). It shows that the usual inequalities relating Paasche and Laspeyres to the true index are reversed (from what they are in cost-of-living theory) for the case of production. It also assesses the implications of changing production possibilities caused by technological change or a change in factor supplies. This monograph will be a useful resource for mathematicians, economists, and others interested in economic theory and mathematical economics.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Essay I Taste and Quality Change in the Pure Theory of the True Cost-of-Living Index
I. Introduction
II. The Theory of the True Cost-of-Living Index and Intertemporal Comparison of Welfare
III. Taste Change
IV. New Goods and Other Corner Solutions
V. Quality Change
Footnotes for Essay I
References for Essay I
Essay II The Pure Theory of the National Output Deflator
I. Introduction
II. Real Output Indices and Production Possibility Maps
III. Which Index Is Relevant?
IV. Paasche and Laspeyres Indices
V. Market Imperfections and Underutilized Resources
VI. The Indices: Formal Description
VII. Hicks-Neutral Technological Change
VIII. Changing Factor Supplies and Factor-Augmenting Technological Change: The Two-Sector Model
IX. Changing Factor Supplies and Factor-Augmenting Technological Change: The General Case
X. Factor-Augmenting Technological Change in a Single Sector of the Two-Sector Model
XI. General Technological Change
XII. New Goods, Disappearing Goods, and Corner Solutions
XIII. Quality Changes
Footnotes for Essay II
References for Essay II
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1972
- No. of pages (eBook): 134
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483238852
- eBook ISBN: 9781483271156
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Karl Shell
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Karl Shell
Affiliations and expertise
Cornell UniversityRead The Economic Theory of Price Indices on ScienceDirect