...Marek Hudík This article shows that the possibility of formally incorporating reference-dependence into the theory of consumer behavior was explored well before Kahneman and Tversky in the early 1990s; specifically, in separate papers by Alt, Samuelson, and Bernardelli in the late 1930s...

... there was a real Paretian re- vival. Henry Moore, Henry Schultz, Hicks and Allen, Samuelson, Harro Bernardelli, Oskar Lange, and many other economists went back to read Pareto’s works. The common picture has been, from those days on- ward, that Pareto’s ideas about utility—its existence, its role, and its...

... and Revealed Preference Theory 85 Marek Hudík Reference-Dependence and Marginal Utility: Alt, Samuelson, and Bernardelli   677 Marianne Johnson Progressivism and Academic Public Finance...

... . Unpublished working paper, Seattle University. Bell, J. F. 1953 . A History of Economic Thought . New York: Ronald Press. Bernardelli, H. 1935 . Notes on the Determinateness of the Utility Function. Part 2. Review of Economic Studies 2 : 69 -75. Bernoulli, D. 1738 . Specimen theoriae de...

...). It is interesting that in Harro Bernardelli’s opinion European economic analysis begins with Liber Abaci (see Mirakhor 1988,324-25). M. M. Sharif discusses a second mechanism of transmission. Accord- ing to him, many European students later attended Muslim schools in order to study mathematics...