Theory of the Consumption Function / / Milton Friedman.

What is the exact nature of the consumption function? Can this term be defined so that it will be consistent with empirical evidence and a valid instrument in the hands of future economic researchers and policy makers? In this volume a distinguished American economist presents a new theory of the co...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1957
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Implications of the Pure Theory of Consumer Behavior
  • III. The Permanent Income Hypothesis
  • IV. Consistency of the Permanent Income Hypothesis with Existing Evidence on the Relation between Consumption and Income : Budget Studies
  • V. Consistency of the Permanent Income Hypothesis with Existing Evidence on the Relation between Consumption and Income: Time Series Data
  • VI. The Relation Between the Permanent Income and Relative Income Hypotheses
  • VII. Evidence from Income Data on the Relative Importance of Permanent and Transitory Components of Income
  • VIII. A Miscellany
  • IX. Summary and Conclusion
  • Index