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This paper describes and further develops the author's new system of index numbers of prices and quanta based on R. C. Geary's intuitive, simple and economically meaningful definitions of purchasing ...

When households are subject to quantity constraints, conventional measures of real consumption and purchasing power parity for cross-national comparisons suffer from a new type of index number problem ...