NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

A Theory of the Consumption Function

Milton Friedman

Published in 1957 by Princeton University Press

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0259 pages
ISBN: 0-691-04182-2

Table of Contents

Front Matter . (p. -20 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction. (p. 1 - 6) (bibliographic info) (download)

1. The Implications of the Pure Theory of Consumer Behavior. (p. 7 - 19) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. The Permanent Income Hypothesis. (p. 20 - 37) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Consistency of the Permanent Income Hypothesis with Existing Evidence on the Relation between Consumption and Income: Budget Studies. (p. 38 - 114) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. Consistency of the Permanent Income Hypothesis with Existing Evidence on the Relation between Consumption and Income: Time Series Data . (p. 115 - 156) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. The Relation Between the Permanent Income and Relative Income Hypotheses. (p. 157 - 182) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Evidence from Income Data on the Relative Importance of Permanent and Transitory Components of Income. (p. 183 - 199) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. A Miscellany. (p. 200 - 219) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Summary and Conclusion. (p. 220 - 240) (bibliographic info) (download)

Index. (p. 241 - 243) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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