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... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 References Aldrich , J. 1987 . Jevons as Statistician: the Role of Probability. Manchester School 55 . 3 ( September ): 233 -57. Allen , R. D. G. 1975 . Index Numbers in Theory and Practice . London: Macmillan. Black , R. D...

...Aashish Velkar Index numbers are indirect measurements as well as composite quantities that present particular inferential challenges to the measurer and their intended audiences. The early history of the use of index numbers in British economics (ca. 1860–1914) shows that making inferences using...

...Victor Cruz-e-Silva; Felipe Almeida Abstract The systematic emergence of the test approach to index numbers took place in the early 1920s, a period marked by pluralism in American economics. Promoted by Irving Fisher, the test approach to index numbers aimed to select a universally valid, ideal...

... ,edited by Henry Andrew Bumstead and Ralph Gibbs Van Name. New York:Dover. Chipman, John S., Leonid Hurwicz, Marcel K. Richter, and Hugo F. Sonnenschein, eds. 1971 . Preferences, Utility, and Demand. New York: Harcourt Brace. Diewert, W. E. 1998 . Index Numbers. In vol. 2 of The New Palgrave...

...Victor Cruz-e-Silva Abstract Correa Moylan Walsh (1862–1936) was a monetary economist of the early twentieth century, mostly remembered for his contributions to the theory of index numbers. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926) was a renowned mathematical economist, remembered as one of the great...

... calculated by his Index Number Institute. Fisher’s simultaneous pursuit of several reform and scientific projects sometimes got in the way of each other, as in 1912 when his campaigns for an international conference on the cost of living and an international society for the promotion of mathematics...

.... This change of definition was closely associated with changes in the preferred measurement of development, from average income (based on national income accounting) to the proportion of the population holding certain characteristics of what it meant to live in poverty (instantiated in various index number...

.... Boumans, Marcel. 2001 . Fisher's Instrumental Approach to Index Numbers. In The Age of Economic Measurement ,edited by Judy L. Klein and Mary S. Morgan. HOPE (supplement): 313 -44. Bowley, A. L. 1923 . Review of The Making of Index Numbers, by Irving Fisher. Economic Journal 33 : 90 -94...

... Association 56 : 535 -48. Allen, R. G. D. 1933 . On the Marginal Utility of Money and Its Application. Economica 13 : 200 -209. Allen, Robert Loring. 1993 . Irving Fisher:A Biography . Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. Bowley, A. L. 1928 . Notes on Index Numbers. The Economic Journal 38 : 216...

... C 1979 by Duke University Press The concept of indexation and monetary theory Reuven Brenner, University of Chicago The concept of indexation was developed along with the concept of index numbers; but, while the last caused a significant step in the his- tory of economics...

... of 1797-1821: A Reprint of the Bullion Report . 2d ed. London: P.S. King & Son. Chance, W. A. 1966 . A Note on the Origin of Index Numbers. The Review of Economics and Statistics 48.1 : 108 -110. ____. 1996 . Some Suggestions for Complicating the Theory of Money. In Interactions...

... Fisher’s index number formulae; Harro Maas (this volume) shows how William Stanley Jevons can be understood as using a “virtual balance”; and Franck Jovanovic and Philippe Le Gall (this volume) recount how 2. See for example, Chang 2001. Heilbron (1990, 6) suggests that the early scientific...

.... Mitchell , Wesley. 1913 . Business Cycles . Berkeley: University of California Press. Mitchell , Wesley. 1914 . Human Behavior and Economics: A Survey of Recent Literature. Quarterly Journal of Economics 29 : 1 -47. Mitchell , Wesley. 1915 . The Making and Using of Index Numbers...

... and index numbers and has more in common with the Fisher article of 1926 (reprinted in 1973 as “I Discovered the Phillips Curve”) than with Keynes’s severely skeptical 1939 review of Jan Tinbergen’s Statistical Testing of Business Cycle Theories. Since thk 1970s, many macroeconomists have turned...

... Alejandro E. 1919 . “ Costo de la vida en la Argentina. Sus variaciones de 1910 a 1918 .” Revista de Economía Argentina 3 , no. 16 : 309 – 32 . Bunge Alejandro E. 1920 . The Coefficient of Money Correction: The Use of Index Numbers in the Determination of Fluctuations in the Purchasing...

... British Board of Trade, 239, check data, 66 67, 69, 77 78 cotton, 75 76 243n23, 250n28 dot charts, 72 74, 76 cost-of-living indices, 240, 246, economic theory absence, 55 improvement efforts, 72, 75 76, 249, 252, 254 index numbers, 228 29, 239 78 London and Cambridge Economic par method, 71 72 quantity...

... 229–34 Economic Consequences of the arenas of intervention, 227–29 Peace (Keynes), 69–70, 71n6 concept of, 221–29 Lippmann, Walter, and, 106 index numbers, generally, 230 popularity of, 72, 85–86 modes of intervention, 226–27...

... within the Cold War's intellectual force field. To begin this analysis, let us examine Domar's 1967 article, “An Index-Number Tournament.” In the introduction to a 1989 collection of essays, Domar ( 1989b : xiv) shared that his “interest in this dismal subject [index-number theory] was aroused...

.... Included there are discussions of his work in index numbers, his public controversies with Pearson and Tinbergen, and his approach to model specification in the Tract on monetary reform and the General theory. 3. Pearson 1910. A discussion of Pearson’s report, and the controversy surrounding...

... . Rochester, NY : Social Science Research Network . http://papers.ssrn.com.proxy.library.nd.edu/abstract=2532106 . Boumans Marcel . 2001 . “Fisher's Instrumental Approach to Index Numbers.” In The Age of Economic Measurement , 313 – 44 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Brookmire...