Price Indexes in Time and Space Methods and Practice
This book deals with the currently most relevant topics in price index numbers theory and practice. The problem of the harmonization of Consumer Price Indexes (CPIs) and the time-space integration of baskets is analyzed at the EU-zone level, with methodol
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Luigi Biggeri · Guido Ferrari Editors
Price Indexes in Time and Space Methods and Practice
Editors Professor Luigi Biggeri University of Florence Viale Morgagni 59 50134 Firenze Italy [email protected]
Professor Guido Ferrari University of Florence Viale Morgagni 59 50134 Firenze Italy [email protected] and Renmin University of China 59 Zhongguancun Street Beijing 100872 China
ISBN 978-3-7908-2139-0 e-ISBN 978-3-7908-2140-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-7908-2140-6 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009940050 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd., Pondicherry Printed on acid-free paper Physica-Verlag is a brand of Springer Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
In his “Prime ricerche sulla rivoluzione dei prezzi in Firenze”∗ (1939), Giuseppe Parenti, by Fernand Braudel regarded as an author who “se classait, d’entrée de jeu et sans discussion possible, à la hauteur même d’Earl Jefferson Hamilton. . ..” begins his opening lines with a description/definition of the price revolution which took place in the XVI in Europe as “that extraordinary enhancement of all things that occurred in European countries around the second half of the XVI; revolution in the true meaning of the word, as not only, like any strong price increase, it modified the wealth distribution process and changed the relative position of the various social categories and of the different functions of the economic activity, but affected too, in a way that was not enough studied yet, the relative evolution of the various national economies, and finally, . . .. . .. . .., certainly contributed to the birth, or at least to the dissemination, of the new naturalistic economic ideas, from which the economic science would have sprung”. Definition that can be taken as the founding metaphor of this volume. The ideal stimulus represented by Parenti’s work may have opened the way to the now long standing tradition which links the research activity of the Department of Statistics of the University of Florence to price index numbers
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