"We study the logic of Peronist interventionist polices and the beliefs that support them. Instead of a comprehensive approach, we focus on three elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron's speeches during the period 1943-55. Second, we study survey...

We fully characterize the preferences relations that can be represented by a utility. Representation is equivalent to the condition that preferences do not have too many "jumps". A characterization of preferences that can be represented by a continuous utility follows trivially from our...