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===Development of the Edgeworth box=== The Edgeworth box is named after [[Francis Ysidro Edgeworth]],<ref>{{citation |last = Schotter |first = Andrew |year = 2008 |title = Microeconomics: A Modern Approach |publisher = [[Cengage Learning]] |isbn = 978-0-324-31584-4 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oH--t0SX7nEC&pg=PA524 |page = 524 }}</ref> who presented it in his book ''Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences'', 1881.<ref>{{citation |author = Lluís Barbé |year = 2010 |title = Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: a portrait with family and friends |publisher = [[Edward Elgar Publishing]] |isbn = 978-1-84844-716-5 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m93iASHrXnEC&pg=PR12 |page = 12 }}</ref> Edgeworth's original two-axis depiction was developed into the now familiar box diagram by [[Vilfredo Pareto|Pareto]] in his 1906 ''Manual of Political Economy'' and was popularized in a later exposition by [[Arthur Lyon Bowley|Bowley]]. The modern version of the diagram is commonly referred to as the '''Edgeworth–Bowley box'''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1 = Humphrey |first1 = Thomas M. |title = Early History of the Box Diagram |journal = Economic Quarterly |url = https://www.richmondfed.org/~/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/economic_quarterly/1996/winter/pdf/history.pdf |access-date = 30 October 2016 }}</ref>
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