The welfare of future generations motivated this thinker’s final economics article, per a biography about his “sheer excess of powers” by Cheryl Misak. In an article that introduced the technical term “bliss,” this thinker introduced a variational approach that equates the marginal rates of transformation and substitution. In a 1951 memorandum to the US Treasury, Paul Samuelson re-derived a finding of this thinker whose solution involves an equiproportional reduction in demand. David (*) Cass and Tjalling Koopmans built on this thinker’s work on the endogenous savings rate to extend the Solow growth model. For 10 points, the rule that goods should optimally be taxed at the inverse of their price elasticity is named after what Cambridge academic, who founded the field of public finance in the 1920s? ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 55% | 9% | 9% | 93.17 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Brownstein | I worship the Pyramid (abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard) | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 21 | 15 |
| Swapnil Garg | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | 84 | -5 |
| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | It's not X, but... defenders | 89 | 10 |
| Will Alston | Will They Ever Finish Bruckner’s Ninth Boulevard? | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 102 | 10 |
| Henry Atkins | No, explaining that your buzz came from watching an isekai is not "Proustian" | Do re mi fa serving negs | 110 | 10 |
| Andrew Hart | BHSU X | "Real quiz bowl" only consists of the ACF academic pyramidal scene and the late 2010s NAQT scene. | 111 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Mumbo Jumbo Will Labubu | Broken Socal Scene | 126 | 0 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Floridovician | Please sir, may I have some morb? | 126 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Floridovician | 126 | 0 |
| Cyrus Zhou | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 2k5, RNBQKBNR b Q - 99 66 | Li Bai Chocolate Mushussu Pacha Latte | 126 | 0 |
| Michael Coates | One Microscopic Pog in His Chat-astrophic Plan | The Met on Laserdisc. Bravo! | 126 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | The RAND Coöperation | 126 | 0 |
| Dylan Minarik | The RAND Coöperation | "real numbers are uncountable" factoid actually just statistical error. diagonal georg | 126 | 0 |
| Adrian Wong | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | 126 | 0 |
| Akshar Goyal | Thamos, King of Egypt: The Sahara of the Mozart | Woke Michael Du be like "I'm a genders player" | 126 | 0 |