Notes
1I am grateful to two anonymous referees for their firm but fair criticisms of a first draft of this article that led to many improvements, and also to Professor Leonid Shirokorad for assistance in obtaining a particular item.
2As Peter Dooley concluded, Pareto was the master, Slutsky the gifted disciple. See Dooley (Citation1983, p. 516).
3It is not being suggested by this notion that Slutsky was a superior mathematician to all those around him in this period, just that his mathematical abilities were superior to those possessed by most economists in Russia at this time.
4For a discussion of this context see Barnett (Citation2004a).
5That Slutsky was allowed to travel overseas in 1928 suggests that the Soviet authorities were not overly concerned about his political credentials.
6Slutsky turned out to be, in part at least, correct.
7Translation from the original German kindly supplied by Dr. Hilary Pilkington.