Consumer theory / edited by Kelvin J. Lancaster.

Acknowledgements, ix -- Introduction / Kelvin J. Lancaster, xi -- Part I. Foundations of neoclassical theory -- 1. On the theory of the budget of the consumer / Eugen E. Slutsky, 3 -- 2. A Reconsideration of the Theory of Value / J.R. Hicks, 33 -- 3. Demand functions with limited budgets / Harold Hotelling, 82 -- Part II. Revealed preference -- 4. Consumption theory in terms of revealed preference / Paul A. Samuelson, 97 -- 5. Revealed preference and the utility function / H.S. Houthakker, 108 -- 6. Demand theory without a utility index / Lionel McKenzie, 124 -- Part III. Preference, utility and rationality -- 7. Rational Choice Functions and Orderings / Kenneth J. Arrow, 131 -- 8. Continuity properties of paretian utility / Gerard Debreu, 138 -- 9. Behaviour and the concept of preference / Amartya Sen, 147 -- 10. Rationality as process and as product of thought / Herbert A. Simon, 166 -- Part IV. Aggregate Demand -- 11. Do walras' identity and continuity characterize the class of community excess demand functions? / Hugo Sonnenschein, 185 -- 12. On the characterization of aggregate excess demand / Rolf R. Mantel, 195 -- Part V. The structure of preferences -- 13. Linear expenditure systems and demand analysis: an application to the pattern of British demand / Richard Stone, 203 -- 14. W.M. Gorman, 220 -- Separable Utility and Aggregation / W.M. Gorman, 220 -- 15. Homothetic separability and consumer budgeting / Charles Blackorby, George Lady, David Nissen and R. Robert Russell, 233 -- 16. A reconsideration of the empirical implications of additive preferences / Angus Deaton, 238 -- Part VI. Consumption as production -- 17 A Theory of the Allocation of Time / Gary S. Becker, 251 -- 18. A new approach to consumer theory / Kelvin J. Lancaster, 276 -- 19. Household production and consumer demand functions / Richard F. Muth, 302 -- Part VII. Intertemporal choice -- 20. Mathematical theory of saving / F.P. Ramsey, 315 -- 21. Myopia and inconsistency in dynamic utility maximization / R.H. Strotz, 332 -- 22. Stationary utility and time perspective / Tjalling C. Koopmans, Peter A. Diamond and Richard E. Williamson, 348 -- 23. Changing tastes and coherent dynamic choice / Peter J. Hammond, 367 -- Part VIII. Durable goods -- 24. A dynamic approach to the theory of consumer demand / J.S. Cramer, 385 -- 25. Intertemporal consumer theory and the demand for durables -- W.E. Diewert, 399 -- Part IX. Uncertainty -- 26. The expected-utility hypothesis and the measurability of utility / Milton Friedman and L.J. Savage, 421 -- 27. Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large / John W. Pratt, 433 -- 28. Risk aversion and consumer preferences / Giora Hanoch, 448 -- 29. Prospect theory: an analysis of decision under risk / Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, 462 -- 30. "Expected utility" analysis without the independence axiom / Mark J. Machina, 491 -- Part X. Special Cases -- 31. Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen effects in the theory of consumers' demand / H. Leibenstein, 541 -- 32. De Gustibus non est disputandum / George J. Stigler and Gary S. Becker, 566 -- 33. A theory of rational addiction / Gary S. Becker, Kevin M. Murphy, 581 -- 34. Procrastination and obedience / George A. Akerlof, 607 -- Name index, 627.