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- Title
THE WEALTH EFFECT AND THE LAW OF DEMAND: A COMMENT ON KARL- FRIEDRICH ISRAEL.
- Authors
SALERNO, JOSEPH T.
- Abstract
Karl-Friedrich Israel (2018) sees "obvious tension" in a book chapter (Salerno 2018) in which I argue that the Hicksian income effect plays no role in the causal-realist approach to the demand curve. Israel's reconstructed "wealth effect" is an effort to solve this perceived problem. This comment addresses the expositional gap in my analysis, and resolves the perceived tension. I then outline the problems with Israel's proposed solution, which involves a wholesale reconstruction of demand theory that, in the end, implies a denial of the law of demand.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; DEMAND function; WEALTH
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 2019, Vol 22, Issue 4, p579
- ISSN
1098-3708
- Publication type
Article