THE CONTEXTUAL SOURCES OF SLUTSKY'S EFFECT: 1915, 1927, AND AFTER

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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 (1983, 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 (2004a).

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.

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Vincent Barnett

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