Foundations of Economic Analysis

Samuelson, P. A. (1983). Foundations of Economic Analysis. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1983

Link

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Cited from

economics_finance, mathematics

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

Primes

• Function (Mapping)
  • In economics and statistics, demand and supply functions, production functions, and utility functions
• Marginal Analysis
  • … are willing to pay and what they actually pay—computed as the integral of marginal utility, providing a measure of consumer welfare. The analytical influence of Marshall's synthesis was vast: the tools became standard in microeconomic pedagogy globally; Paul Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947)
• Marginal Utility
  • By the early 20th century, the ordinal revolution (Vilfredo Pareto , John Hicks, Roy Allen, Paul Samuelson)
• Pareto Efficiency
  • … was formalized through twentieth-century welfare economics via a sequence of foundational contributions: Hicks and Kaldor's compensation criteria (1939), which extended Pareto analysis to trade-off cases; Samuelson's revealed-preference and welfare-economics framework (Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1947),

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