CARDINAL VERSUS ORDINAL UTILITY: ANTÓNIO HORTA OSÓRIO'S CONTRIBUTION

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Acknowledgments

I thank my discussants, Pascal Bridel and John Davis, for their comments and my anonymous referees. They all helped to improve my text. I thank John Huffstot for his help in correcting my English. Any errors or omissions are, of course, my own.

Notes

¹Pareto's Economie Mathématique, elaborates his paper on the same subject published in the Giornale degli Economisti, November 1906.

²Osório quotes: Rudolf Auspitz, Richard Lieben (1889), Untersuchungen über die Theorie des Preises; Cesare Bonesana Beccaria (1765), Tentativo analitico sui contrabbandi; Augustin Cournot (1838), Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théory des richesses; Jules Dupuit (1844), De la mesure de l'utilité des travaux publiques; Jules Dupuit (1849), De l'influence des péages sur l'utilité des voies de communication; Francis Edgeworth (1881), Mathematical Psychics; Irving Fisher (1906), The Nature of Capital and Income. Stanley Jevons (1871), Theory of Political Economy; J. Lehr, (1893), Grundbegriffe and Grundlagen der Volkswirtschaft; Alfred Marshall (1890), Principles of Economics; Carl Menger (1872), Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftlehre; Maffeo Pantaleoni (1889), Principi di economia pura. Vilfredo Pareto (1896), Cours d'économie politique; Vilfredo Pareto (1902), Les systèmes socialistes; Vilfredo Pareto (1909), Manuel d'économie politique; Guglielmo Silio (1792), Saggio su l'influenza d'ell analisi nelle scienze pilitiche ed economiche applicata ai contrabbandi; Leon Walras (1874), “Principe d'une théorie mathématique de l'échange,” Journal des Economistes, avril; Leon Walras (1874–1877), Éléments d'économie politique pure, 4th edition 1900.

³See the bibliographical references of this paper. These references are listed separately.

⁴On this perspective see Mata (2002).

⁵Quoted by Amzalak (1934, p. 45).

⁶On this point he is taking his lead once more from Walras's and Pareto's enthusiasm. Compare Osório (1913, p. 213), Walras (1952, p. 65), and Pareto (1927, p. 234).

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Maria Eugénia Mata

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Campolide, Campolide, P 1099-032, Lisbon. Paper was presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (Stirling University) and at the annual conference of the History of Economics Society, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.