...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...

...: unveröffentlichte Aufsätze aus den Jahren 1921–23 .” Monatshefte der Mathematik und Physik 36 : 411 – 32 . Menger Karl . 1994 . Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium . Edited by Golland Louise McGuinness Brian Sklar Abe . Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer...

... Volume for Moritz Schlick in the Celebration of the Centennial of His Birth , edited by Eugene G. , 83 – 103 . Vienna : Springer . Menger K. Golland L. McGuinness B. Sklar A. . 1994 . Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium . Dordrecht : Kluwer...

...-dimensional interval, on which he was enclosing results. Further letters follow in 1932 with results on axiomatics and the theory of convex spaces. Then, in 1933, Wald was back in Vienna, desperately seeking some position that would allow him to remain in the city, close to Menger and the colloquium...

.... But, writes Menger: At that time of economic and incipient political unrest, it was out of the question to secure for him a position at the University of Vienna, although such a connection would certainly have been as profitable for that institution as for himself. Outside of the Colloquium...

... AER piece), Koopmans related activity analysis to the discussions of existence of general equilibrium in Karl Menger's prewar Vienna mathematics colloquium and to the arguments by Oskar Lange (reprinted in Taylor and Lange 1938 ) and Abba Lerner, who defended the possibility of rational calculation...

... 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...

... theorem, is published. He promises a supplement with numerical examples, e.g ., on poker. 1935 Morgenstern (OM) presents his paper on perfect foresight in Menger’s mathematical colloquium in Vienna...

... to accept the goals as they resulted from the political process (1934, 4, 10). On the matter of method Morgenstern, who had become a frequent member of Moritz Schlickʼs “Vienna circle” of philosophers and Karl Mengerʼs (the son of the founder of the Austrian school) “Mathematical Colloquium...

... Volkswirtschaftslehre: Zweite Auflage , i – xxvi . Vienna : Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G. ———. 1994 . Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium . Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers . Polanyi K. 1971 . “ Carl Menger’s Two Meanings of ‘Economics.’ ” In Studies in Economic...

..., or of rationality itself, is the leitmotif of all of Morgenstern’s thought. He recognized this in himself obliquely by stressing retrospec- tively his studies in logic with Alfred Whitehead and the Vienna Circle and by claiming that he was actually a philosopher manque‘: “Method- ology has occupied my...

... of the estates. Friedrich II accused them of mismanage- ment, even in court: at the Reichshofrat at Vienna, the highest court of the Holy Roman Empire. In these proceedings, the duke tried to unmask the estates as an antediluvian body. Friedrich II blasted a remarking irregu- larity in the cash management...

.... 26 Another participant of the Moscow meeting, Eduard Čech, informed Oskar Morgenstern after his talk at the Vienna Menger colloquium in 1936 that his work had much in common with the 1928 paper of von Neumann (Morgenstern 1976 : 806–7), thus initiating their collaboration on game theory...

... development .I2 12. Pierre L’Huillier to Morgenstern, paper titled “Utility Measures in Situations Involv- ing Risk: A Few Reflections on the Problem by the ‘French School”’ (a summary of the International Colloquium on Econometry, Paris, May 1952), Box 47, OMP. Early...

... . Work and welfare in economic theory . Oxford : Basil Blackwell . Punzo Lionello F. 1988 . Von Neumann and K. Menger's mathematical colloquium. In Von Neumann and modern economics , edited by Chakravarthy S. , Dore M. H. , and Goodwin R. M. . Oxford : Oxford University...

... economics. While many economists straddled both worlds, Harvard economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron occupied pride of place by virtue of his ideas, his reputation, and his students. Born in Odessa but with his economic education in Vienna, Gerschenkron brought to both enterprises a capacious and wide...

..., Prüfung und Ausbildung der höheren Beamten des allgemeinen Verwaltungsdienstes in Deutschland im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert . Berlin: Colloquium Verlag. Bödecker, Hans Erich. 1990 . System und Entwicklung der Staatswissenschaften im 18. Jahrhundert. In Die Wissenschaftskultur der Aufklärung , edited...

... . Bouchaud Jean-Philippe . 2002 . “ An Introduction to Statistical Finance .” Physica A 313 ( 1 ): 238 – 51 . Bronzin Vincenz . 1908 . Theorie der Prämiengeschäfte . Vienna : Franz Deuticke . Burda Zdzislaw Jurkiewicz Jerzy Nowak Maciej A. . 2003 . “ Is Econophysics...

... University Archive of the Republic, Moscow Special Archive, Austrian State Archive Vienna Frank Hyneman Knight Papers, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Friedrich A. von Hayek Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Henry C. Simons Papers, Hanna...

..., and why. 3. The Paretians and the Debate on the General Theory of Equilibrium during the 1930s It is possible to identify two broad lines of mathematical inquiry into general economic equilibrium during the 1930s. The fi rst had its cen- ter in Vienna and the group of researchers, for the large...