Theory and Applications of Economic Indices: Proceedings of an International Symposium Held at the University of Karlsruhe April—June 1976

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What is an Economic Index ? An Attempt of an Answer....Pages 3-42
Semantics and “Object Logic” of Price Indices....Pages 43-54
On the Relationship Between Numerical Taxonomy and the Theory of Economic Indices....Pages 55-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
On Wald’s “New Formula” for the Cost of Living....Pages 67-107
An Extension and Alternative Proof of Gorman’s Price Aggregation Theorem....Pages 109-141
Examination of Purchasing-Power-Parity-Methods with a View to Choosing the Most Appropriate Method for a European-Community Purchasing-Power-Parity Model....Pages 143-160
Revealed Preference and the Economic Theory of Index Numbers....Pages 161-175
A Note on the Characterization of Fisher’s “Ideal Index”....Pages 177-181
Price Indices and Generalized Associativity....Pages 183-205
Economic and Atomistic Index Numbers: Contrasts and Similarities....Pages 207-243
A Note on Criteria for Price Index Systems....Pages 245-255
Basic Ideas on Stochastic Indices....Pages 257-270
Fisher’s Five Tines Fork and other Quantum Theories of Index Numbers....Pages 271-294
Divisia Indices on Different Paths....Pages 297-305
Indices of Income Inequality and Societal Income. An Axiomatic Approach....Pages 309-356
Separability and Index Properties of Ray-Homothetic Dynamic Production Structures....Pages 357-379
A System of Indices for the External Analysis of the Earning Capacity Standard and Financial Power of Industrial Joint Stock Companies....Pages 381-387
On the Sensitivity of Key Sector Indices....Pages 389-400
A Taste-Dependent True Wage Index....Pages 401-415
A Dynamic Formulation of Index Functions for the Theory of Cost and Production....Pages 417-448
On Household Production Theory....Pages 449-485
The Degree of Monopoly and Multivariable Sales Policies....Pages 487-533
Indices of Preference Inequality and the Construction of Social Preference Relations....Pages 535-561
Front Matter....Pages 563-563
Some Recent Applications of Functional Equations to Combinatorics, Probability Distributions, Information Measures and to the Theory of Index Numbers in Mathematical Economics....Pages 565-590
Neutral Changes in Tastes and Utility....Pages 591-597
Some Considerations on Related Discrete and Continuous Dynamic Economic Models....Pages 599-622
Dynamic Utility and Aggregator Functions for the Allocation of Private Consumption in Input-Output Models; An Econometric Analysis....Pages 623-655
Production Theory Dualities for Optimally Realized Values....Pages 657-666
Linear Models with Variable Coefficients....Pages 667-681
Aggregation of Substitutional Production Functions by Functional Equation Methods....Pages 683-702
On the Problem of Using Aggregate Predictions....Pages 703-717
On a Flexibility Theorem of Diewert....Pages 719-729
Back Matter....Pages 731-759