Separability and Aggregation - The Collected Works of W. M. Gorman, Volume I
Gorman, W. M. Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford
Blackorby, C. Professor, Economics Department, University of British Columbia
Shorrocks, A. F. Professor, Department of Economics, University of Essex
Print publication date: 1996 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-828521-2
doi:10.1093/0198285213.003.0001
 

1 Separability
W. M. Gorman


This chapter is Gorman's contribution to The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (London: MacMillan Press, 1987), and represents his own summary of many of the issues of functional separability––or separable utility functions––in the theory of demand.
Keywords: demand, separability, separable utility functions
doi:10.1093/0198285213.003.0001
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Preface
Part I Separability and Budgeting
1 Separability
2 Two-Stage Budgeting
3 Separable Utility and Aggregation
4 Notes on Divisia Indices
5 Consumer Budgets and Price Indices
6 Professor Friedman's Consumption Function and the Theory of Choice
7 Quasi-Separable Preferences, Costs, and Technologies
8 Separability and Linear Engel Curves
9 The Concavity of Additive Utility Functions
10 Pseudo-Separability
11 Conditions for Additive Separability
12 The Structure of Utility Functions
13 Conditions for Generalized Additive Separability
14 Facing an Uncertain Future
Part II Aggregation Across Agents and Firms
15 Community Preference Fields
16 Klein Aggregates and Conventional Index Numbers
17 On a Class of Preference Fields
18 Capital Aggregation in Vintage Models
19 Measuring the Quantities of Fixed Factors
20 Some Engel Curves
21 More Measures for Fixed Factors
22 Muellbauer's Representative Consumer
23 Assembling Efficient Organizations?
24 Aggregates for Variable Goods: An Application of Duality
25 Aggregation in the Short and Long Run
26 Long-Run Aggregates Under Constant Returns
Bibliography
 
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