University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

expand sectionII. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionVII. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVII. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionVII. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionV. 
collapse sectionIII. 
  
  
  
  
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionVII. 
expand sectionVII. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionIV. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

In addition to the classic authors (ancient and modern),
the following special works cited in the text may be con-
sulted for details: Giovanni B. Antonelli, Sulla teoria mate-
matica della economia politica
(1866; Milan, 1952); M.
Friedman and L. J. Savage, “The Utility Analysis of Choices
Involving Risk,” Journal of Political Economy, 56 (1948),
279-304; Ferdinando Galiani, Della moneta (1750; Bari,
1915); Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1936), “The Pure The-
ory of Consumer's Behavior,” reprinted in Nicholas
Georgescu-Roegen, Analytical Economics: Issues and Prob-
lems
(Cambridge, Mass., 1966), pp. 133-70; idem, “Choice,
Expectations, and Measurability” (1954a), reprinted ibid.,
pp. 184-215, from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, 68
(1954), 503-34; idem, “Choice and Revealed Preference”
(1954b), reprinted ibid., pp. 216-27, from Southern Eco-
nomic Journal,
21 (1954), 119-30; Hendrik S. Houthakker,
“Revealed Preference and the Utility Function,” Eco-
nomica,
N.S., 17 (1950), 159-74; John Law, Money and Trade
Considered with a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with
Money
(1705), reprinted in Oeuvres complètes, 3 vols. (Paris,
1934) I, 4; William F. Lloyd, “A Lecture on the Notion
of Value as Distinguishable Not Only From Utility But Also
From Value in Exchange” (1833), Economic History, 1
(1927), 170-83; Alfred Marshall, The Pure Theory of Domes-
tic Value
(1879), Reprints of Scarce Tracts in Economics
and Political Science, No. 1 (London, 1930); Oskar
Morgenstern and John von Neumann, Theory of Games and
Economic Behavior
(New York, 1944); Vilfredo Pareto,
Manuel d'économie politique (Paris, 1909), an expanded
version of his Manuale di economia politica (Milan), pub-
lished in 1905 but dated 1906; Frank P. Ramsey, The Foun-
dations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays
(1926; New
York, 1950); Paul A. Samuelson, “A Note on Pure Theory
of Consumer's Behavior,” Economica, N.S., 5 (1938), 61-71
and 353-54; Jean Ville, “The Existence-conditions of a Total
Utility Function” (1946), Review of Economic Studies, 19
(1951-52), 123-28.

General surveys of the technical aspects of the problem
of utility are: Kenneth J. Arrow, “Utilities, Attitudes,
Choices: A Review Article,” Econometrica, 26 (1958), 1-23;
John S. Chipman, “The Foundations of Utility,” Economet-
rica,
28 (1960), 193-224; Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen,
“Utility,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,
17 vols. (New York, 1968), 16, 236-67 (it includes a substan-
tial bibliography); George J. Stigler, “The Development of
Utility Theory” (1950), reprinted in J. J. Spengler and
W. R. Allen, eds., Essays in Economic Thought: Aristotle to
Marshall
(Chicago, 1960), 606-55, from Journal of Political
Economy,
18 (1950), 307-27, 373-96.

NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-ROEGEN

[See also Economic History; Economic Theory of Natural
Liberty; Happiness and Pleasure; Social Welfare; Util-
itarianism.
]