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A Note on Pareto's “Sunto”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Michael Mclure
Michael Mclure
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University of Western Australia, Economics Program, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. E-mail: michael.mclure@uwa.edu.au.
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The early literature on ordinalism and Vilfredo Pareto's incomplete development of ordinal theory, by John R. Hicks and R. G. D. Allen (1934), Oskar Lange (1934), Hicks (1939), George Stigler (1950), Paul A. Samuelson (1974) and others, referred exclusively to Pareto's more mature French language works: the Manuel d'Économie Politique (1909) or the subsequent encyclopaedia entry entitled “Économie Mathématique” (1911). The related discussion considered whether Pareto was an inconsistent ordinalist, a cardinalist, or confused.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 399 - 403
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2005

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