THE INDEX NUMBER PROBLEM: CONSTRUCTION THEOREMS.

AFRIAT, Sydney.

ISBN 10: 0199670587 / ISBN 13: 9780199670581

Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014

Beschreibung

8vo. pp xii, 220. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered silver at the spine. ISBN: 9780199670581 Fine in fine dust wrapper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers C13184

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Titel: THE INDEX NUMBER PROBLEM: CONSTRUCTION ...

Verlag: Oxford University Press, Oxford

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: 1. Auflage

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Inhaltsangabe:

This volume addresses the search for a true price index, the need to know how to convert an amount at one date into the right amount at another date.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Sydney Afriat was awarded a State Bursary at school for two years at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He graduated in mathematics and part physics and spent an interval during WWII at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, High Speed Section, Aerodynamics Division, directed by J. H. C. He was released at end of the war and whilst studying for his DPhil at Queen's College, Oxford, he became research assistant to the economist J. R. Bellerby, and then joined the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge. He has held positions at many universities including Jerusalem, Princeton, Rice, Yale, Purdue, UNC, Waterloo, Ottawa, and Berkeley. He has been Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Fellow, an Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics, Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University NSW, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka and at the University of Siena, and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute.