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van Veelen, M. (2009). The apples and oranges theorem for price indices Economics Letters, 103(1):12--14.

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    Economics Letters
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The question is whether or not there is a generally meaningful way to compute price indices. I explore the duality between price and quantity indices, and present an impossibility result that is analogous to the one for quantity indices.