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Use of wholesale commodity price index as barometer
failure of this technique in 1923/29




Index numbers
Arthur, Henry B.
The development of wholesale price measurements by the Federal Government. (In: Review of
.Economic Statistics, August 1935,p#49-59#)
ka historical record of the making of the
indexes.




ARTHUR, Henry B.
The development of wholesale price measurements
by the Federal Government, REVIEW OF ECONOMIu
STATISTICS,
August, 1935, pp. 49-59.

Historical record of the making of the indexes




Prices—Index Numbers

BACON, Dorothy C.
A monthly index of commodity prices, 1890-1900,
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS,
October, 1926, p. 177.




Prices—index numbers

BARNETT, G. E.
Index numbers of the total cost of living,
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS,
February, 1921.




BEAN, L. H. and STINE, 0 . C.
Pour types of index numbers of farm p r i c e s , JOURNAL
OP THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
March, 1924.




BBRRIDGE, W.A., WINSLOW, E.A., and PLIM, R.A.
Purchasing power of the eonsumer; a statistical
index. Chicago:
1925. Pp. xxv, 518.




BURS ESS, R. W.
Some important p r i n c i p l e s of index nanber
construction, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL
ASSOCIATION, SUPPLEMENT,
March, 1928.




CRDM, ¥. L.
The interpretation of the index of general
business conditions, REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS,
September, 1925.
Revision of the index of general business
conditions, REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS,
November, 1928.




DAVIES, G. R.
Problem of a standard index number formula,
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
June, 192-'+.




DAY, Edmund E.
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. New York:
1925.




DAY, Edmund E.
AN index of the physical volume of manufacture, REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS,
January, 1923.
An index of the physical volume of production,
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS, September-December,
1920.




FEDERAL RESERVE BULLETIN
The new index of industrial production.
March, 1927.




ELLSWORTH, D.W. and HOUGHTON, R.
New weekly index of commodity prices,
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
December, 1926.




FISHER, Irving
Best form of index nwaber; with d i s c us a ion
and rejoinder, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL
association,
March, and September, 1921*




FERGER, Wirth F.
Distinctive Concepts of Price and
Purchasing Power Index Numbers, JOURNAL OF THE
AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, Vol, 31,
June, 1936, pp. 258-272.




FISHER, Irving
Comment on (Carl Snyder's) review of Fisher's
•The Making of Index Numbers, "• AMERICAN ECONOMIC
REVIEW, vol. 15, Deeember, 1925.




5 PP«

FISHER, Irving
THE MAKE*} OP INDEX NIMBERS; A STUDT OP
THEIR VARIETIES, TESTS AND RELIABILITIES.
Bostons
1st ed., 1922, Pp. 526.
2d rev. ed., 192J.
Pubs, of the Pollak Foundation of Economic
Research No. 1.




FISHER, Irving
Mr. Udny Yule on index numbers, STATISTICAL
JOURNAL, Vol. LXXXVII,
1924, pp. 8 9 - 9 8 .




FISHER, Irving
"Professor Young on Index Numbers," QUARTERLY
JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, XXXVII, August 1923, S P g g f ^ i *
pp. 742-755




PISHER, Irving
Professor loving on index numbers, QUARTERLY
JOURNAL OP EOONOMIOS,




August, 192?.

FISHER, Irving
Report on data of the weekly index number,
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSN.,
June, 1927.
Revision of the weekly index number, ibid.,
September, 1924; September, 1925; September, 1926.




FISHER, Irving
The total value criterion: a new
principle in index ntamber construction, JOURNAL OF
THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
December, 1927•




FISHER, Irving
A weekly index number of wholesale prices,
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
Vol. XVIII,
1925, pp. 855-40.




FISHER, Irving
THE MAKING OF INDEX NUMBERS. A STUDY OF THEIR VA*
RIETIES AND RELIABILITY. Boston and New York, Houghton
Mifflin Co., 1922.




FLINN, H. M.
THE PROBLEM OF BUSINESS FORECASTING.
and New York:
1924.




Boston

FRISCH, Ragnar
Annual survey of general economic theory:
on index numbers, ECONOMETRIC A, Vol. IV,
January, 1936.

contains bibliography




theory

GRESSENS, 0.
On the measurement of seasonal variation,
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
Vol. XXI,
1925.




HALL, Lincoln W.
Determination of pastand present
secular trends, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL
ASSOCIATION, Vol. XXI,.
1926.
A moving sectilar trend and moving
integration, ibid., Vol. XX,
1925.
Seasonal variation as a relative of
secular trend, ibid., Vol. XIX,
192^.




HASTINGS, Hadson B.
Best index numbers for stabilization purposes,
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
March, 1928.




JEROME, H.
BUSINESS CYCLES AND BAROMETERS IN STATISTICAL
METHODS. New York:
1924.




KELLEY, T. L.
Certain properties of index numbers, JOURNAL
OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
September, 1921.




KING, W. I.
Best index for use in stabilizing
the price level, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL
ASSOCIATION, SUPPLEMENT,
March, 1928.

Some fallacies concerning index numbers,
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
March, 1928.




LEWIS, Edward E.
The Measurement o f Purchasing Power
JOUENAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
Vol. 32, No. 196, June, 1937, pp. 337-343; comment by
Wirth F. Ferger, pp. 343-348.




LIBRART OP CONGRESS

Bibliography
Index Numbers
Bibliography of recent references on index
numbers.
1919- Pp. 5-




LOVITT, W. T.
Indexnumber b i a s , JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN
STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
March, 1 9 2 8 .




MILLS, F . C.
The a n a l y s i s of b u s i n e s s c o n d i t i o n s :
b u s i n e s s f o r e c a s t i n g , i n FINANCIAL HANDBOOK.
New York:
1925, pp. 49-61




MITCHELL, V. C.
The Dun-Gibson index number, QUAPTERLY
JOUPNAL OF ECONOMICS,
November, 1910.




PADEN,
Prices and index numbers, JOOENAL OF POLITICAL
ECONOMY,
March, 1900.




PERSONS, Warren M.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDEX NUMBERS.
Houghton Mifflin, 1928.




PERSONS, Warren M.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF INDEX NUMBERS.
Bostons
1928. P p . 8 7 .




PERSONS, W.M. and COYLE, E. S.
A commodity price index of business cycle,
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS, Vol. Ill,
1921, pp. 553-70.




PERSONS, Warren M.
INDICES OF GENERAL BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
Cambridge: Harvard University Committee on Economic
Research, 1919.




PHINNEY, J . T.
"The growth of trade to 1913," JOUBNAL OF
POLITICAL ECONOMY, XLII, August 1934, pp.
492-507.
discussions of indexes




SNODGRASS, K.
International price indexes, JOURNAL OF THE
AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOC IATION,
June, 1924.




SNIDER, Carl
"The Measure of the General Price Level,11
REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS,
February, 1928.




SNXDER, Carl
"A New Clearings Index of Business for 50 Years,11
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
September, 1924*




SNIDER, Carl
^A New Index of the General Price Level from
1875," JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ISSOCUTIOM,
June, 1924.




STAEHLE, Hans A*
A development of the economic theory
of price index numbers,
BEVIEtf OF ECONOMIC STUDIES,
June, 1935.
Pp. 26,




STEWART, W^ter V.
"An Index Number of Production, * THE AMERICAN
ECONOMIC REVIEW, XI, No. 1 , March, 1921, pp. 57-70.
Discussion:
Carl Snyder} H. S. Person} V. I . King, i b i d . , pp. 71-81.




STINE, 0.0.
Constructing agricultural price index numbers,
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION,
SUPPLEMENT,
March, 1928.




ULMER, M. J.
THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF COST OF LIVING INDEX
NUMBERS. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949.
also London| Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1949. Pp. 106.




WALSH, C. M.
"Index Mumbers,» ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE
SOCIAL SCIENCES, edited by E. R. A. Seligman.
New York,
15 vols., 1903-1935J
1937.




re-issued, 6 vols.,

WALSH, C. M.
Professor Edgeworth's views on index numbers,
QUARTERLY. JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, Vol. 38,
1924, pp. 500-519.




WALSH, C. M.
THE PROBLEM OF ESTIMATION: A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
CONTROVERSY AND ITS BEARING ON MODERN STATISTICAL
QUESTIONS, ESPECIALLY INDEX NUMBERS. London:
1921.




WEAVER, H. G.
The development of a basic purchasing power
index by countries, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW,
April, 1926.




WILLIAMS, Faith M.
International p r i c e indexes, the
French index number, FEDERAL RESERVE BULLETIN,
A\«ust, 1922.




YOUNG, Allyn
"Fisher1 s •The Making of Index Numbers,'""
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, XXXVII, Feb. 1923,
pp. 342-364.




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YOUNG, Allyn A.
The aeasurement of changes of the general
price level, QUAETEHLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS,
August, 1921.