"The Trouble of an Index"
Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780674089549
Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780674089549
Author : Sydney Afriat
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019164952X
A theft amounting to £1 was a capital offence in 1260 and a judge in 1610 affirmed the law could not then be applied since £1 was no longer what it was. Such association of money with a date is well recognized for its importance in very many connections. Thus arises the need to know how to convert an amount at one date into the right amount at another date: in other words, a price index. The longstanding question concerning how such an index should be constructed is known as 'The Index Number Problem'. The ordinary consumer price index represents a practical response to this need. However the search for a true price index has given rise to extensive thought and theory to which an impressive number of economists have each contributed a word, or volume. However, there have been hold-ups at a basic level, which are addressed in this book. The approach brings the subject into involvement with utility construction on the basis of finite data, in a form referred to as 'Afriat's Theorem' but now with utility subject to constant (and also possibly approximate) returns.
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Publisher : Delene Kvasnicka
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Military trucks
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Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 1973
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ISBN : 9780719528200
Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 9780719538858
Author : Good Companion Chess Problem Club, Philadelphia
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1918
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Page : 2524 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Law
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Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : 9780674089402
Author : Dennis Duncan
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1324050519
A New York Times Editors' Choice Book Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub and Goodreads A playful history of the humble index and its outsized effect on our reading lives. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and—of course—indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart—and we have been for eight hundred years.