num_pages: 224
description: Providing a valuable resource for government economists, academics, and research libraries, this volume contains twelve papers by Robert Pollak--four previously unpublished--that explore the theory of the cost of living index. In addition to Pollak's classic paper, "The Theory of the Cost of Living Index," the volume includes papers on subindexes, the intertemporal cost of living index, welfare comparisons and equivalence scales, the social cost of living index, the treatment of "quality," and consumer durables in the cost of living index.
language: English
title: The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index
titlecomplete: The Theory of the Cost-of-Living Index
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press