...D. Wade Hands Revealed preference theory is not a specific theory; it is a broad programmatic framework for analyzing choice behavior. Within this broad framework there are a number of different revealed preference theories (different versions of the program)—they all share common features...

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... of economists. It then uses “control as a viewpoint” from which to study the history of the two disciplines. It reveals why behaviorism did not meet consumer demand theory during the “ordinalist / revealed preferences revolution” of the 1930s (i.e., the behaviorist myth), despite common methodological...

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... replace “revealed preference” by “revealed demand.” What is the dif- ference? Cassel’s revealed demand was empty of comparative-statical properties. The revealed preference of a consistent consumer was rich in such properties. Correspondence may be addressed to Professor Hans Brems, 99...

.... From the late thirties onward Paul Samuelson in a series of works took the ordinalist revolution to the extremes with his “revealed preferences” approach, and the mathematical economists of the fifties finished the job. Hicks and Allen began to speak of Pareto’s as an incomplete revolution, relying...

..., replaced cardinal with ordinal utility, and generally placed demand theory on more solid scientific foundations. Often a third development is added—the revealed preference theory introduced by Paul Samuelson (1938)—a move that is seen as further strengthening the the- ory’s scientific basis...

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... later discussion in which he refers to Samuelson 1948 and 1950: “Samuelson thought that a ‘strong axiom’ could be laid down to guaran- tee integrabilityIt would seem, e.g. from Corlett and Newman (1952), that this is not the case. The revealed preference approach is no improvement on the simple...

... include revealed preference (Chipman, Mas- Colell), production (Lau), information (Krelle), trade (Wan), welfare economics (Chipman), marginal productivity (Tinbergen), and reminiscences of Samuelson as a student and person (Bergson, Akerlof, Bronfenbrenner). The position of the protagonist...

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... instruments. Nothing has illustrated this fact more than the treatment of utility theory within and beyond microeconomic theory. Critics write off utility theory with off-hand remarks about interpersonal comparisons and non-additive units, while economists suppose that revealed prefer- ence avoids...

... recommending that we need to develop institutions that bring out the “best behaviors” in people. Professor Smith would likely argue that the price system (with ideal market rules) does that for most pri- vate goods. These analyses, together with some early research in revealed prefer- ence analysis...

... of Political Economy 38 (annual suppl.)  DOI 10.1215/00182702-2005-016 Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press The Hicks-Allen Composite Commodity  33 Let us first take Stanley Wong’s Foundations of Paul Samuelson’s Revealed Preference Theory (1978), an influential contribution...

... work, “Mathematical Economics” ([ 19113 1955). He cited Pareto’s use of budgetary data to derive indifference curves (Stigler 1950, 381). Anticipating a revealed preference approach to the theory of choice, Pareto proposed that, in principle, an agent’s indifference curves could be deduced...