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doi:10.1080/10427710120049228

On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 7:18 PM Steven Medema <[log in to unmask]>
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> Maxime,
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> Given that this was/is the standard approach for modeling labor supply
> decisions at the individual level, it might be worthwhile to dive down the
> labor econ rabbit hole. Mark Killingsworth’s big book, *Labor Supply*
> (CUP 1983) might provide some clues about the history. I have a copy, but
> it is in my office at the university. Perhaps I can remember this long
> enough to check on Monday.
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> Best wishes,
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> Steve
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> Steven G. Medema, PhD
> George Family Research Professor of Economics
> Associate Director, Center for the History of Political Economy
> Research Associate, School of Law
> Duke University
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> https://sites.duke.edu/sgmedema/
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> *From: *Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]> on behalf
> of Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay <[log in to unmask]>
> *Date: *Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 9:11 AM
> *To: *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> *Subject: *[SHOE] Question on the history of neoclassical economics: who
> first conceived of the consumption, leisure utility function?
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> I am hoping you could perhaps help me retrace the origins of the common
> maximisation problem of *u(C, L)* function under the leisure-paid work
> constraint. Who was the first to pose the consumption-leisure bundle of
> goods? Who popularised the use of this model?
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> Was it predated by a (consumption, time worked) bundle (where work is a
> negative good)?
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> I saw that Becker (1965) refers to the “the traditional labour-leisure
> approach”. Marshall seems to make a big deal of the value of leisure, but I
> did not find an explicit conceptualisation of this idea. Jevons seems to
> connect utility to labour and commodities, but in the production side, not
> as consumption of commodities and leisure.
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> Any help on those questions would be greatly appreciated!
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> Best wishes,
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> Maxime
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