separability
Published in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics • Feb 14, 2011
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Authors:
W.M. Gorman
Abstract
Suppose you were interested in the demand for tomatoes in Ireland. A few words with traders, producers, agricultural scientists, official statisticians and anthropologists would provide a mass of ‘facts’ about that particular market, the data available, and the role of tomatoes in Irish culture, whi...