ABSTRACT
The price index, a pervasive long established institution for economics, is a number issued by the Statistical Office that should tell anyone the ratio of costs of maintaining a given standard of living in two periods where prices differ. For a chain of three periods, the product of the ratios for successive pairs must coincide with the ratio for t
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I: Concept and Method
part |2 pages
Part II: Precursor
part |2 pages
Appendices