Article ID: CBB001451797

Indifference Curves and the Ordinalist Revolution (2012)

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The article discusses the history of the notion of the indifference curve as an aspect of demand theory in relation to the ordinalist revolution in economics. Topics include the views of economists Vilfredo Pareto and Irving Fisher, psychological aspects of the economic notion of demand, and an experiment conducted by economist Louis Leon Thurstone. Also addressed are the opinions of economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, the methodology of experiments in economics, and economist Paul Anthony Samuelson's notion of revealed preferences.

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Authors & Contributors
Cot, Annie L.
Berenson, Edward
Antoine Missemer
François Allisson
Arnold, Alexander Lee
Erbs, Laurent
Journals
History of Political Economy
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Revue de Synthèse
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Publishers
University of Texas, Austin
Routledge
Galton Institute
Editions EHESS
New York University
Concepts
Economics
Science and politics
Monopoly (economic)
Intellectual history
Sociology
Typology (theory)
People
Fisher, Irving
Thurstone, Louis Leon
Pareto, Vilfredo
Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas
Heckscher, Eli Filip
Dupuit, Jules
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Modern
Places
France
Italy
United States
Sweden
Spain
Institutions
Club of Rome
Harvard University
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