Evidence on the Impact of Income Distribution on Consumer Demand in the UK 1955-68.
In the theoretical literature there are several results available concerning conditions under which market demand is independent of the distribution of personal incomes. A closely related question concerns the conditions under which a representative consumer exists who may have the mean or some othe...
| Publicado en: | Review of Economic Studies Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 893 - 907 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct80
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