Author: Tobin, James
Title: Essays in Economics. Volume 2: Consumption and Econometrics
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1988). 2nd printing. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, vii,492 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contains 19 papers concerning Inflation & Unemployment; The Consumption Function; Rationing; Econometrics. Includes: The Cruel Dilemma; Phillips Curve Algebra; The Wage-Price Mechanism; Inflation & Unemployment; The Consumption Function; Relative Income, Absolute Income & Saving; Milton Friedman's Theory of the Consumption Function; Life-Cycle Saving & Balanced Growth; Wealth, Liquidity & the Prospensity to Consume; Monetary &Fiscal Effects on Consumption; Consumer Debt & Spending: Some Evidence from Analysis of a Survey; Consumer Expenditures & the Capital Account; On the Relevance of Psychology to Economic Theory & Research; On the Predictive Value of Consumer Intentions & Attitudes; Rationing: A Survey of the Theory of Rationing; The Effects of Rationing on Demand Elasticities; Estimates of the Free Demand for Rational Foodstuffs; A Statistical Demand Function for Food in the U.S.A.; Multiple Probit Regression of Dichotomous Economic Variables; Estimation of Relationships for Limited Dependable Variables.

Keywords: Economic Theory, Economics, Consumption, Inflation, Unemployment, Rationing, Econometrics, Economy,