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Gottfried Haberler’s Contributions to the Theory of Index Numbers: A Blueprint for Revealed Preference Theory
WP 2024-03. Executive Summary This paper reviews the neglected contributions to the theory of index numbers in Gottfried Haberler’s (1927) habilitation thesis Der Sinn der Indexzahlen (The Meaning of Index…