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Professor of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1970 Nobel Memorial Laureat of Economic Science. This article is the lecture he delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1970, when he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Science. Minor corrections and additions have been made by the author. The article is published here with the permission of the Nobel Foundation and is included in the complete volume of Les Prix Nobel en 1970 as well as in the series Nobel Lectures (in English) published by the Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam and New York. The article was also printed in Science 173, September 10, 1971, 991–97.

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Samuelson, P.A. Maximum principles in analytical economics. Synthese 31, 323–344 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485982

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