Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The measurement of economic welfare
- 3 Measuring consumption: An initial look at the data
- 4 The cost of living
- 5 The standard of living
- 6 Does a rising tide raise all ships?
- 7 Consumption and poverty
- 8 Conclusions
- Appendix 1 Measuring individual and social welfare
- Appendix 2 Interpolating and extrapolating the expenditure distribution
- References
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The measurement of economic welfare
- 3 Measuring consumption: An initial look at the data
- 4 The cost of living
- 5 The standard of living
- 6 Does a rising tide raise all ships?
- 7 Consumption and poverty
- 8 Conclusions
- Appendix 1 Measuring individual and social welfare
- Appendix 2 Interpolating and extrapolating the expenditure distribution
- References
- Index
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- Consumption and Social WelfareLiving Standards and their Distribution in the United States, pp. viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000