西方对消费函数理论及消费函数测度方法的研究，最早可追溯至１９世纪中叶，但对消费函数作比较系统的研究则开始于本世纪３０年代以前的马歇尔时代。“经济大萧条”以后，随着凯恩斯《就业利息和货币通论》的问世，有关消费函数的理论和实证分析已成为西方学者愈来愈关注... Western research on the theory of consumer functions and the measure of consumer functions can be traced back to the middle of the 19th century as far as the mid-19th century. However, a systematic study of the consumption function began in the Marshall era before the 1930s. With the advent of Keynes, the “Theory of Employment Interest and Money”, the theoretical and empirical analysis of consumer functions has become a growing concern for Western scholars after the “Great Depression” ...