1. Introduction -- 2. Price Indices Depending only on Prices -- 2.1 Definition, Examples, Implications -- 2.2 Characterizations of Price Indices -- 3. Price Indices Depending on Prices and Quantities -- 3.1 Definition, Examples -- 3.2 Fisher’s System of Tests -- 3.3 Implications and...

1 Scalar-Valued Production Functions: Homotheticity, Quasilinearity, and Technical Progress -- Invariant Relationships for Homothetic Production Functions -- Characterization of the CES Production Functions by Quasilinearity -- Technical Progress, Neutral Inventions, and Cobb-Douglas -- A...

First discussions on several topics of this book took place at a symposium held at the University of Karlsruhe (July 14 - 21, 1985). The book is divided into nine parts with the headings "Methodology and Methods" (4 papers), "Prices" (9), "Efficiency" (5), "Preferences" (7), "Quality" (2),...

The literature on economic problems connected with measuring and modelling of welfare and inequality has grown rapidly within the last decade. Since this literature is scattered throughout a great number of journals on economics, economic theory, econometrics, and statistics, it is difficult to...