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Introduction to Measurement with Theory

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Barnett, William A.
Diewert, W. Erwin
Zellner, Arnold

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This working paper is the first draft of an overview and commentary on the papers to appear in a Macroeconomic Dynamics Special Issue on Measurement with Theory. The included papers in the special issue are part of a larger initiative to promote "measurement with theory" in economics and planned to appear as special issues of other journals. A later revised draft of this initial commentary is planned to appear as the introduction to the Macroeconomic Dynamics special issue, expected to appear in 2010.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 14868.

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Keywords: Measurement; index number theory; aggregation theory.;

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