Many applications of Gorman polar form are summarized in various texts and in Honohan and Neary's article.<ref>{{cite citedjournal at|last=Honohan the|first=Patrick end|authorlink=J. ofPeter thisNeary article|last2=Neary |first2=J. Peter |title=W. M. Gorman (1923–2003) |journal=The Economic and Social Review |volume=34 |issue=2 |year=2003 |pages=195–209 |url=http://www.esr.ie/Vol34_2Neary.pdf |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050110001924/http://www.esr.ie/Vol34_2Neary.pdf |archivedate=2005-01-10 |df= }}</ref> These applications include the ease of estimation of <math>f^i(p)</math> and <math>g(p)</math> in certain cases. But the most important application is for the theorist of economics, in that it allows a researcher to treat a society of utility-maximizing individuals as a single individual. In other words, under these conditions a community [[indifference curve|indifference mapping]] is guaranteed to exist.
== See also ==
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*{{cite book |last=Antonelli |first=G. B. |year=1886 |title=Sulla Teoria Matematica dell’Economia Politica |___location=Pisa }} English translation in {{cite book |editor1-first=J. S. |editor1-last=Chipman |editor2-first=L. |editor2-last=Hurwicz |editor3-first=M. K. |editor3-last=Richter |editor4-first=H. F. |display-editors = 3 |editor4-last=Sonnenschein |title=Preferences, Utility and Demand: A Minnesota Symposium |___location=New York |publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |year=1971 |pages=333–360 |isbn= }}
*{{cite journal |first=W. M. |last=Gorman |title=On a class of preference fields |journal=Metroeconomica |volume=13 |year=1961 |pages=53–56 |doi= }}
*{{cite journal |last=Honohan |first=Patrick |authorlink=J. Peter Neary |last2=Neary |first2=J. Peter |title=W. M. Gorman (1923–2003) |journal=The Economic and Social Review |volume=34 |issue=2 |year=2003 |pages=195–209 |url=http://www.esr.ie/Vol34_2Neary.pdf |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050110001924/http://www.esr.ie/Vol34_2Neary.pdf |archivedate=2005-01-10 |df= }}
*{{cite journal |last=Nataf |first=A. |year=1953 |title=Sur des questions d’agrégation en économétrie |journal=Publications de l’Institut de Statistique de l’Université de Paris |volume=2, Fasc. Vol. 4 |pages=5–61 }}
