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Historical note on the application of mathematics in economics in Germany

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  1. Daniel Bernoulli appears to be the first who defined utility as a logarithmic function of wealth — in his famous paper on the measurement of risk in games “Specimen Theoriae Novae de Mensura Sortis” (1738).

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  1. Institut für Statistik an der Universität Wien, Rathausstraße 19/II/3, Wien I, Österreich

    S. Sagoroff

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Sagoroff, S. Historical note on the application of mathematics in economics in Germany. Metrika 4, 78–81 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02613868

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