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Aggregation and Consumer Demand

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The term aggregation has two meanings in consumer demand analysis. One refers to aggregation over commodities and the other is the aggregation over consumers. In this chapter we shall consider both types of aggregation.

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  1. School of International Business Relations, Griffith University, Australia

    E. A. Selvanathan

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Selvanathan, E.A. (1995). Aggregation and Consumer Demand. In: Recent Developments in Applied Demand Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85205-3_10

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