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Elasticity of Demand and Social Welfare

Hans Staehle

Harvard University Press

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1940

Scope of the paper, 217.— I. Elasticities of demand usually obtained by methods which are open to two objections: the time element, 218; data are for markets, 218.— A possible way out, 219.— Data available and method to be used, 220.— II. Coefficients for various commodities, 221.— Substitution, 221.— Relation to income, 224.— III. Spread of consumption around the averages, 225.— IV. Inferences concerning the desirability of price reductions, 229.

DOI
10.2307/1883330
Volume
54 (2)
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217
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