Original Work for Pareto Refinement of NE under Strategic Form Just looking to see if anyone has any knowledge of original work for pareto refinement of NE under strategic form. I want to give credit to the refinement in a paper I am writing. I pulled the refinement from Nachbar's notes on "Topics in Advanced Game Theory", but obviously that is not a reliable source to cite.
I think you're referring to the criterion of payoff dominance in equilibrium selection. This idea can be attributed to Harsanyi and Selten (1988): 


John C. Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten. 1988. A General Theory of Equilibrium Selection in Games, MIT Press.