TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- PREFACE -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- CHAPTER I-Introduction -- CHAPTER II-The Implications of the Pure Theory of Consumer Behavior -- 1. Complete Certainty -- 2. The Effect of Uncertainty -- a. THE INDIFFERENCE CURVE DIAGRAM -- b. MOTIVES FOR HOLDING WEALTH -- 3. The Relation between the Individual and the Aggregate Consumption Function -- CHAPTER III-The Permanent Income Hypothesis -- 1. The Interpretation of Data on the Income and Consumption of Consumer Units -- 2. A Formal Statement of the Permanent Income Hypothesis -- 3. The Relation between Measured Consumption and Measured Income -- CHAPTER IV-Consistency of the Permanent Income Hypothesis with Existing Evidence on the Relation between Consumption and Income: Budget Studies -- 1. Temporal Changes in Inequality of Income -- 2. Consumption-income Regressions for Different Dates and Groups -- a. TEMPORAL DIFFERENCES -- b. DIFFERENCES AMONG COUNTRIES -- c. CONSUMPTION OF FARM AND NONFARM FAMILIES -- d. OCCUPATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES -- e. NEGRO AND WHITE FAMILIES -- f. A DIGRESSION ON THE USE OF PARTIAL CORRELATION IN CONSUMPTION RESEARCH -- 3. Savings and Age -- 4. The Effect of Change in Income -- a. THE FSA DATA -- b. THE SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES DATA -- c. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMPARISONS -- Appendix to Section 4-The Effect of Change in Income on the Regression of Consumption on Income -- CHAPTER V-Consistency of the Permanent Income Hypothesis with Existing Evidence on the Relation between Consumption and Income: Time Series Data -- 1. Recent Long-period Estimates of Aggregate Savings for the United States -- a. THEIR GENERAL PATTERN -- b. THE CONSTANCY OF k* -- 2. Regressions of Consumption on Current Income -- a. EFFECT OF PERIOD COVERED -- b. EFFECT OF FORM OF DATA
