Aggregation, Consumption and Trade Essays in Honor of H.S. Houthakker

The Fitness Maximized by the Classical Canonical Economy: A Theme from Houthakker and R.A. Fisher.- Income and Price Sensitivity in Consumer Demand Analysis.- Cross-Section Engel Curves, Expenditure Distributions and the “Law of Demand”.- Tests of Dynamic Specification and Homogeneity in a Demand System.- Specification and Estimation of Dynamic Demand Systems.- Remarks on the Power of Non-Parametric Tests of Consumer-Theory Hypotheses.- Brain Structure and Consumption Dynamics.- Corners in Organized Futures Markets.- Oil Futures and Strategic Stocks at Sea.- The Effect of Income and Prices on Protection and Rent Seeking in the U.S., 1950 – 1986.- Introduction: Four Unpublished Papers by Hendrik S. Houthakker.- Are There Laws of Consumption?.- The Dynamics of Total Consumption and Savings.- On a Class of Dynamic Demand Functions.- Proposed Technique for Estimating Demand Functions from Time Series.- Publications of Hendrik S. Houthakker.