Moscati, Ivan - Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - 2012
The paper shows that cardinal utility entered economic analysis during the Ordinal Revolution initiated by Pareto and … not, as many popular histories of utility theory assume, before it. Cardinal utility was the outcome of a discussion begun … period contributed to it, with Samuelson in particular playing a pivotal role in defining and popularizing cardinal utility …