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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (4): 635–655.
Published: 01 December 2016
...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...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (1): 111–154.
Published: 01 March 2010
... 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. Aldrich, J. 1989 . Autonomy. Oxford Economic Papers 41 : 15 –34. ———. 1992 . Probability and Depreciation: A History...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (1): 83–130.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., 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...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 25–70.
Published: 01 December 2000
...: 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...
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History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 March 1986
..., 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...
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History of Political Economy (1987) 19 (2): 173–182.
Published: 01 June 1987
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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...
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History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (3): 560–565.
Published: 01 September 1991
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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...
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History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (3): 515–527.
Published: 01 September 1993
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 207–233.
Published: 01 December 2024
...; “effectively” he was its “Deputy Director” (Wallis 1980 : 322). The SRG is best known for having created sequential analysis. Although this technique was mainly developed by Abraham Wald, the initial ideas came from Friedman and Wallis (Wallis 1980 ). Friedman also played a crucial role...
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History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (4): 595–631.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Cassel, and Ragnar Frisch. At the same time, von Neumann worked with Birkhoff on the mathematical qualitative analysis of dynamic systems and became aware of the mathematical economics of Abraham Wald, who was a PhD student of Menger in Vienna. 2. John von Neumann papers 1912 1996 (JVNP), Library...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (3): 511–527.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., 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...
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History of Political Economy (2016) 48 (4): 593–634.
Published: 01 December 2016
... . Auburn, Ala. : Mises Institute . Morgenstern O. 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...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 561–586.
Published: 01 June 2024
... that will be meaningful.” When the war started, Hotelling and a team of university colleagues (Abraham Wald, Milton Friedman, and Leonard “Jimmy” Savage were among the most prominent members) founded the Statistical Research Group, to help with the war effort. Hotelling spent thirty-nine months, starting from July...
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History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (Supplement): 29–76.
Published: 01 December 1992
.... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 107–132.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., the first in 1940 (he also published another article in the same journal that year) and the second, “On the Fundamental Lemma of Neyman and Pearson,” with Abraham Wald in 1950 (reprinted as the first two chapters of Dantzig 2003 ). Dantzig, occupied with linear programming, might never have published his...
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History of Political Economy (1999) 31 (3): 587–589.
Published: 01 September 1999
.... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (3): 443–467.
Published: 01 September 2010
...” (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...
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History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (Supplement): 3–12.
Published: 01 December 1992
... 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...
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History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (Suppl_1): 199–226.
Published: 01 December 2000
..., 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...
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History of Political Economy (2015) 47 (suppl_1): 147–173.
Published: 01 December 2015
...: 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...
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