...Till Düppe; E. Roy Weintraub In fall 1935, Abraham Wald presented a fixed-point proof of a general equilibrium model to Karl Menger's Mathematical Colloquium in Vienna. Due to limited space, the paper could not be printed in the eighth proceedings of the colloquium (the Ergebnisse ) published...

... the First World War; Ronald Fisher, who began to be influential in the late 1920s; Jerzy Neyman, who appeared in the late 1930s; and Abraham Wald in the early 1940s. Correspondence may be sent to john.aldrich@soton.ac.uk . I would like to thank Olav Bjerkholt for discussion and for providing me...

..., and promoter of the mathematical economics of Karl Menger and Abraham Wald, Morgenstern played a central role in Viennese economic life. His involvements cast light on the community's constituent groups, on the tensions that pervaded them, and on the ultimate demise of Viennese intellectual life...

...: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science . New York: Cambridge University Press. Morgenstern, Oskar. 1951 . Abraham Wald. Econometrica 19.4 : 361 -67. Neyman, Jerzy. 1971 . Foundations of Behavioristic Statistics. In Foundations of Statistical Inference ,edited by V. P. Godambe and D. A. Sprott...

..., presumably because it was too mathe- mati~a1Still, among the outsiders attending the Mayer seminar, Rosenstein-Rodan listed Karl Schlesinger, who could do mathematics, and Menger and his student Abraham Wald, who were mathematicians. I have no direct testimony as to why they came or what they may...

... of the immigrants. Econometrics? Abraham Wald and Gerhard Tintner. Mathematical economics? John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, and Leonid Hurwicz. Public finance? Rich- ard Musgrave. Economic history and the history of thought? Alexander Gerschenkron, Carl Landauer, and Karl...

...- tunate belief that relativity theory and quantum mechanics contain lessons that are relevant for economic studies (171). The authors proceed to repeat the well- known story of the work in the 1930s of Abraham Wald, John von Neumann, and other Viennese scholars. General equilibrium theory began...

... Brouwerschen Fixpunktsatzes Ergebnisse eines Mathematichen Kolloquiums 8. Translated in 1945 as, A Model for General Equilibrium, Review of Economic Studies 13 . 1 : 1 -9. Wald , Abraham . 1935 and 1936 . On the Unique Non-Negative Solvability of the New Production of Equations (Parts I, II...

... Stanislaw . 1958 . “ John von Neumann 1903–1957 .” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 64 , no. 3 : 1 – 49 . Vonneumann Nicholas . 1987 . John von Neumann as Seen by His Brother . Meadowbrook, PA : N.A. Vonneumann . Wald Abraham . 1935 . “ Über Die Eindeutige...

..., the mathematical task force based at Columbia University under the direction of Harold Hotelling, which Friedman joined in 1942.20 Finally, Friedman cooperated with Abraham Wald (1947), a devoted Ney- manian, in the development of sequential analysis, a technique allowing the researcher to stop sampling...

.... 1951 . “Abraham Wald, 1902–1950.” Econometrica 19 : 361 – 67 . Mullins N. 1973 . Theory and Theory Groups in Contemporary American Sociology . New York : Harper and Row . Murzi M. 2001 . “Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970).” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy...

.... Freeman , Harold. 1968 . Wald, Abraham. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , vol. 16 . New York: Macmillan. Gale , D. , H. Kuhn, and A. Tucker. 1950 . On Symmetric Games. In Contributions to the Theory of Games , vol. 1 , edited by H. Kuhn and A. W. Tucker. Princeton...

.... Schumpeter , Joseph . 1954 . History of Economic Analysis . London: Allen & Unwin. Wald , Abraham . 1933–34 . Uber die eindeutige positive Loesbarkeit der neuen Produktions-gleichungen. Ergebnisse eines mathematische Kolloquiums 6 : 12 -20. Wold , Herman . 1943–44 . A Synthesis...

...” (Epstein 1987, 61). In his mind, an economic behavior was rational if it met the rules of statis- tical induction and expected utility maximization, whether individual or social.23 A 1946 letter to statistician Abraham Wald perfectly summarized the close relationships he saw between the technical...

... connect the Vienna of the mathe- matician Karl Menger, the “Mathematische Kolloquium,” to John von Neumann (1936) and Abraham Wald and trace the movement of ideas and people from Europe to the United States in the 1930s. The story links the Cowles Foundation and the Econometric Society...

..., and Oskar Morgenstern. 1944 . Theory of Games and Economic Behavior . Princeton,N.J.: Princeton University Press. Wald, Abraham. 1945 . Statistical Decision Functions which Minimize the Maximum Risk. Annals of Mathematics 46.2 : 265 -80. Reprinted in vol. 1 of Dimand and Dimand 1997 . Walker...

...: An Introductory Analysis . 8th ed. New York : McGraw-Hill . ———. 1974 . “Public Goods Twenty Years Later.” June . Box 143, Paul A. Samuelson Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University . Wald Abraham . 1951 . “On Some Systems of Equations of Mathematical...

... for Abraham Wald to come to America. His leadership at Princeton is well known to those who passed through but will not be the focus of my survey here. I will concentrate on his published work only. In this connection it is unfortunate, but in some sense not surprising, that Morgenstern did very...

...” (Samuelson & Swamy 1974, 576) economically unfounded; in particular, both the Determinateness Test (F4) and the Factor Reversal Test (F9) were considered to be “suspect.” Parallel to this debate, Abraham Wald, in his 1937 article “Zur Theo- rie der Preisindexziffern,” also proved the inconsistency...

... . von Neumann John . 1963 . Collected Works . 7 vols. Oxford : Pergamon Press . von Neumann John , and Morgenstern Oskar . [1944] 1964 . Theory of Games and Economic Behavior . 3d ed. New York : Wiley . Wald Abraham . 1945 . Generalization of a Theorem by von...