[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
revealed preferences
Who came up with that concept?
Doug
Doug H wrote
revealed preferences
Who came up with that concept?
Paul Samuelson.
Background (from long-ago graduate school days). About 75% of the following is
true.
In the old days of neoclassical economics they made use of the notion
of utility. Utility was generally seen to
Title: RE: [PEN-L:27709] Re: Re: Re: Re: Inflation and CPI
also, a lot of the payment for education is in the form of taxes, and so doesn't show up in the CPI. (Does the CPI exclude sales taxes? even if it doesn't, it does exclude most other taxes.)
Jd
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Isn't that Samuelson's term?
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:10:24PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
revealed preferences
Who came up with that concept?
Doug
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Jim D. wrote,
also, a lot of the payment for education is in the form of taxes, and so
doesn't show up in the CPI. (Does the CPI exclude sales taxes? even if it
doesn't, it does exclude most other taxes.)
Only post-tax spending is included in the CPI. Public school spending, etc,
does not
