Knowledge that Transforms

We have attempted here to trace the implications, in terms of operational procedures, of some postulates about the "physical" nature of objects on one hand and individual choice behaviour on the other. We summarize the major result in very loose terms by asserting that if when choosing from among several objects which are characterized by "qualitative" or "ordinal" properties, an individual's choice obeys a transitivity law, then the choice is necessarily" dictated" by one characteristic a lone; that is, the underlying preference must be lexicographic in one of these ordinal properties. The reader must consult the text below for an elaboration on the meaning of the terms emphasized by quotation marks before the proper context of the result can be established.

Journal Article A Probabilistic Model of Social Choice: Comment Get access Peter C. Fishburn Peter C. Fishburn The Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 1975, Pages 297–301, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296538 Published: 01 April 1975

Journal Article Some Remarks on Optimal Growth with Intertemporally Dependent Preferences in the Neoclassical Model Get access Mukul Majumdar Mukul Majumdar Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1975, Pages 147–153, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296828 Published: 01 January 1975

Journal Article Efficient Sequences of Non-Monetary Exchange Get access Paul J. Madden Paul J. Madden Aberdeen University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 1975, Pages 581–596, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296795 Published: 01 October 1975

Journal Article Production Uncertainty and the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem Get access Raveendra N. Batra Raveendra N. Batra Southern Methodist University, Dallas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 1975, Pages 259–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296533 Published: 01 April 1975

Journal Article The Heckscher-Ohlin Model and Traded Intermediate Products Get access Albert G. Schweinberger Albert G. Schweinberger University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 1975, Pages 269–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296534 Published: 01 April 1975

Daniel A. Graham, E. Roy Weintraub; On Convergence to Pareto Allocations12, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 3, 1 July 1975, Pages 469–472,

Avinash Dixit, James Mirrlees, Nicholas Stern; Optimum Saving with Economies of Scale12, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 3, 1 July 1975, Pages

Journal Article Functional Separability and Partial Elasticities of Substitution Get access R. Robert Russell R. Robert Russell University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1975, Pages 79–85, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296821 Published: 01 January 1975

Journal Article A Synthesis of the Ramsey-Meade Problems when Population Change is Endogenous Get access John S. Lane John S. Lane London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1975, Pages 57–66, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296819 Published: 01 January 1975