 This view was influenced by neoclassical economics, associated with scholars such as Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Lionel Robbins (1898–1984), John Hicks (1904–1989), co-winner of the Economics Nobel Prize with Arrow, and Paul Samuelson (1915–2009), another Nobel Laureate. Arrow’s theorem demonstrates the stark implications of the ‘ordinalist’ assumptions of neoclassical thought. For a critique of this restrictive ordinalist approach to welfare economics, see also the work of Kotaro Suzumura (1944–2020) (e.g., Suzumura 2000).