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I very much appreciate the opportunity to respond to Jürgen Backhaus’s clever effort to bolster the Pareto principle as the fundamental concept of welfare economics and to finesse its major critiques without doing them complete justice. I find that while I agree, inevitably, with some of what he writes, I disagree with much.
Originally published in Analyse & Kritik, vol. 3 (August 1981), pp. 124–34, as a comment on Jürgen Backhaus, ‘The Pareto Principle’, Analyse & Kritik, vol. 2 (1980).
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Samuels, W.J. (1992). The Pareto Principle: Another View. In: Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12371-1_19
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