Everything about Hicksian demand function

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Hicksian demand functionA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Measuring Hicksian welfare changes from Marshallian demand functionsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: A systematic analysis of the links amongst the Marshallian, Hicksian, and Frischian demand functions: A noteCited 3 times
4. Go sideways: Slutsky equationA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Expenditure minimization problemA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A systematic analysis of the links amongst the Marshallian, Hicksian, and Frischian demand functions: A note

  Robert Sproule · 2013 · Economics Letters · 3 citations

• The Substitution Effect from the Profit Function in Consumption: Expressions from the Marshallian, Hicksian, and Frischian demand functions

  José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal · 2018 · Economics and Business Letters · 1 citations

• Marshallian and Hicksian demand functions without calculus

  Fountas Evangelos, Milioris Konstantinos · 2025 · Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Measuring Hicksian welfare changes from Marshallian demand functionsJesus C. Dumagan · 1991
• Modern MicroeconomicsSanjay Rode · 2013
• Modern MicroeconomicsSanjay Rode · 2013
• Modern MicroeconomicsSanjay Rode · 2013

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