Talk by A. R. Prest Fellow and Bursar of Christ's College, Cambridge. and University Lecturer in Economics The subject of this talk is Richard Stone's book The Measurement of Consumers' Expenditure and Behaviour in the United Kingdom, 1920-1938, Volume I, published last year.
This is work on which Mr. Stone and a number of assistants have been engaged for the last thirteen years, and is the leading volume in a series published jointly by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London, and the Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge.