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The system of inequalities ars > XrXs*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

S. N. Afriat
Affiliation:
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, and Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Extract

In the investigation of preference orders which are explanations of expenditure data which associates a quantity vector xr with a price vector pr (r = 1, …, k), in respect to some n goods, there is considered the class of functions φ, with gradient g, which are increasing and convex in some convex region containing the points xr, such that gr = g(xr) has the direction of pr. † Let ur = pr/er, where so that

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1963

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