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There are two closely related but different problems both of which are, due to the unprecise and non-technical use of the word “smooth”, represented by the above headline. Although the word “smooth” has well defined technical meanings — for example functions are smooth if they are of class C∞ — the non-technical use is well suited for tracing back these problems in the history of economic theory.
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Trockel, W. (1984). Smoothing Demand by Aggregation. In: Market Demand. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46488-1_3
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