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...Professor Economics. During his academic career, Bergson held many government positions. He served as an analyst for the Office of Strategic Service, as a member of the reparation committee in Moscow during WWII, and as a member of various military boards during that time. Bergson was a scholar of immeasurable credits and immortal renown, quite deserving of his reputation as Dean of Soviet economics.

Bergson will be remembered for establishing the theoretical foundations of modern welfare economics. His first published milestone article on welfare economics (Quarterly Journal of Economics 1928, reprinted in Bergson, 1982, 2-27), laid out a research program that he advanced for nearly three quarters of a century. In a sympathetic evaluation of Bergson's early contribution, Samuelson noted that the concept "Social Welfare Function" originated with Bergson. This idea has gained so much importance that it can be used to explain the community's social preferences (Dobb, 1968, 110-111). The welfare function...

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