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Up to the Second World War, Irving Fisher was the most influential economist in the United States; in a sense he could be considered as the “American Pareto”.1 Indeed, since his doctoral thesis written in 1892, he was interested in general equilibrium theory, and in that dissertation he presented a model he used as a basis on which to build a hydraulic-mechanical analogous model for a ten market economy; so he can also be considered as a precursor to Scarf (1967), in studying an algorism to find the solutions to a non linear system of equations.
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Nicola, P. (2000). Irving Fisher and Interest Theory. In: Mainstream Mathematical Economics in the 20th Century. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04238-0_8
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