caa a22 4500 388040300 CHVBK 20180307125019.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199806 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1053837200001863 doi S1053837200001863 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1053837200001863 Weber Christian E. Pareto and the Wicksell-Cobb-Douglas Functional Form [Elektronische Daten] [Christian E. Weber] It is understood that Charles Cobb and Paul Douglas (1928) were not the first to use the production function named after them. Joseph Schumpeter (1954, p. 1042), Carl-Axel Olsson (1971), and Henry Spiegel (1991, p. 816) all note that the production function Y = AKαL1-α had been used by Knut Wicksell (1901, 1906) more than twenty years before Cobb and Douglas published their study. While it is quite possible that Wicksell was the first to use the Cobb-Douglas functional form to study production, he was not the first to apply it to economic analysis in general. Vilfredo Pareto had worked out several implications of a specific version of the Cobb-Douglas utility function as early as 1892. Later, he repeated and extended this analysis in the mathematical appendix to the French translation of his Manual of Political Economy (1909). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Journal of the History of Economic Thought Cambridge University Press 20/2(1998-06), 203-210 1053-8372 20:2<203 1998 20 HET https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837200001863 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837200001863 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Weber Christian E. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the History of Economic Thought Cambridge University Press 20/2(1998-06), 203-210 1053-8372 20:2<203 1998 20 HET CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge