...Jean Baccelli Book Reviews Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. By Cheryl Misak. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xxxvi; 544 pp. $32.95. Written by Cheryl Misak, a noted specialist of pragmatist philosophy, this is the first book-length academic biography of Frank Ramsey. Drawing...

... University Press 2016 Frank Ramsey (1903–1930): A Sister's Memoir . By Paul Margaret . Huntingdon : Smith-Gordon , 2012 . 304 pp . $30.00 . Book Reviews Frank Ramsey (1903–1930): A Sister’s Memoir. By Margaret Paul. Huntingdon: Smith-Gordon, 2012. 304 pp. $30.00. Why has Frank...

... of Taxation. Economic Journal 37.145 : 47 -61. ———. 1928 . A Mathematical Theory of Saving. Economic Journal 38.152 : 543 -59. Duke University Press 2009 Frank Ramsey’s Notes on Saving and Taxation Edited by Pedro Garcia Duarte Editor’s Introduction There are two sets of undated...

...Pedro Garcia Duarte Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a Cambridge mathematician who produced profound work in logic, philosophy, mathematics and economics in the first-half of the twentieth century. He died at the age of twenty six, in 1930, and his contributions, despite being few in number, have been...

... discounting utilities of future generations, to which Frank Ramsey subscribed, postwar neoclassical growth economists (of the “Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model”) applied the discount factor either to the individual's or the social planner's decision making as a technical requirement of dynamic general equilibrium...

...Pedro Garcia Duarte Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930) was a Cambridge mathematician who made important contributions not only to philosophy, mathematics, logic, and probability, but also to economics. Ramsey made two major contributions to economics, both published in the Economic Journal in 1927...

... by Duke University Press. 684 History of Political Economy 30:4 (1998) tique of Frank Ramsey. Put in simple terms this meant that the relationship between a given proposition and the information available on its truth was not a unique, a priori probability, as Keynes had formulated...

... Center for Mathematical Philosophy 10.1215/00182702-9395128 References Borel, E mile. 1924. A propos d un traite de probabilite s. Revue philosophique de la France et de l e tranger 98: 321 36. Duarte, Pedro. 2009. Frank Ramsey: A Cambridge Economist. History of Politi- cal Economy 41, no. 3: 445 70...

... Heinrich Gossen. In chapter 6, Szpiro jumps to the 1920s and discusses the economic theories, and the complicated sentimental life, of Cambridge mathematician Frank Ramsey. In particu- lar, Szpiro focuses on Ramsey s suggestion to measure the strength of a subject s belief about the occurrence...

... thinking to Ludwig Wittgenstein s Tractatus, arguing that Wittgenstein s book undercut the foundation of Keynes s Treatise on Probability. The problems with Carter s argument manifest on many levels. For one, he neglects that the published criticism of Keynes s theory of probability came from Frank Ramsey...

... Wittgenstein, and Carabelli to ‘the late Wittgenstein. Davis (like Bradley Bateman) makes the case for discontinuity resulting from critiques (notably by Frank Ramsey and Wittgenstein) of G. E. Moore’s concept of intuition and its ethical implications, and from philosophical questions posed...

... of probability to Keynes in A Treatise of Probability, when Keynes clearly adheres to an objective theory; he attributes a subjective theory of value to the philosopher G. E. Moore, when Moore adhered to an (objective) theory of intrinsic value; he never mentions Frank Ramsey’s subjectivist critique...

... attributes a subjective theory of value to the philosopher G. E. Moore, when Moore adhered to an (objective) theory of intrinsic value; he never mentions Frank Ramsey’s subjectivist critique of Keynes’s theory of probability or Keynes’s capitulation to Ramsey. These errors and omissions make...

... acknowledged his lack of success by conceding the criticisms of A Treatise made by the short-lived Cambridge philoso- Darity / Who Owns Keynes? 163 pher Frank Ramsey. Bateman is fervent on the last point, referring several times in his essay to “Keynes’s capitulation...

... by A. Bonglorno and A. Livingston. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935 . Pigou, Arthur C. 1920 . The Economics of Welfare . London: Macmillan. Ramsey, Frank P. 1927 . A Contribution to the Theory of Taxation. Economic Journal 37 : 47 -61. Roy, René. 1942 . De l'utilité . Paris: Hermann...

.... Pomini, Mario, and Giovanni Tondini. 2006 . The Idea of Increasing Returns in Neoclassical Growth Models. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 13.3 : 365 –86. Ramsey, Frank P. 1928 . A Mathematical Theory of Saving. Economic Journal 38 : 543 –59. Robinson, Joan V. 1956...

... of letters exchanged with Frank Ramsey in which, in response to queries by Har- rod, Ramsey provides an analysis of a particular demand curve that leads to a particular mathematical formulation of a large firm selling in a non- perfectly competitive market. This thus involves a price above marginal cost...

..., no reference to either Hayek or Lindahl is to be found in Dorfman et al. 1958. It seems clear then that, for the MIT economists, intertemporal general equilibrium theory had its roots elsewhere. For them, Frank Ramsey 1928 is the mother lode, as stated forcefully by Samuelson and Solow (1956), and cited...

... the conceptual resources to clearly avoid being subjectivist or subjective objectificationist. That Keynes later criticized himself on the topic of intuition, first in response to Frank Ramsey’s criticism of the notion in the Treatise, and then later (in quite sarcastic terms) in his “My Early Beliefs...

... University Press. Popper , Karl 1959 . The Logic of Scientific Discovery . London: Hutchinson. Ramsey , Frank P. 1931 . The Foundation of Mathematics and Other Essays . New York: Humanities. Russell , Bertrand , and Whitehead. Alfred North 1913 . Principia Mathematica . 3 vols...