...Guy Numa In this article, I analyze and compare the contributions of Dupuit and Walras on the natural monopoly of railroads. Both theorists argued that railroads—as opposed to inland waterways—could not be vertically unbundled, a point that previous authors who compared their views failed to point...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert F. Hébert Guy Numa is justified in calling attention to our erroneous translation of a passage from Jules Dupuit’s Dictionnaire article of 1853. His conclusions, however, regarding Dupuit’s “global” policy prescriptions on the operation of railroads, and their semi...

... by Louis Suret. Paris: M. Giard & É. Brière. Beard, T. Randolph, and Robert B. Ekelund Jr. 1991 . Quality Variability and Price Discrimination: A Note on Dupuit's Conjecture. Southern Economic Journal 57 (April): 1155 -63. Bentham, Jeremy. 1795 . Supply without Burthen: or Escheat Vice...

... École Nationale des Ponts et Chausées (ENPC) in the nineteenth century,among whom Jules Dupuit (1804–1866),inspector-general of the Corps,was the outstanding figure. Although they have recently written books on such topics as the medieval church as a business firm and mercantilism as rent seeking...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert F. Hebert Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Robert Ekelund is Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. Robert Hebert is Associate Professor of Economics at Auburn University. Dupuit and marginal utility: context...

...Robert B. Ekelund, Jr.; Robert F. Hébert The achievements of Jules Dupuit (1804–1866), French engineer and economist, policymaker and molder of the canon of neoclassical microeconomic theory, are displayed in their entirety through Yves Breton and Gérard Klotz‘s compilation of his collected works...

... sociale . Paris: Economica. Dupuit, Jules. 1849 . De l'influence des péages sur l'utilité des voies de communication. Annales des ponts et chaussées: Mémoires et documents , 2d ser., 17.1 : 170 -248. Reprinted in De l'utilité et de sa mesure:Écrits choisis et republiés par Mario de Bernardi...

.... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dupuit , Jules [1844] 1952 . On the Measurement of the Utility of Public Works. In International Economic Papers , 2 : 83 -110. Translated by R. M. Barback from Annales des ponts et chaussées, ser. 2, 7. London: Macmillan. Dupuit , Jules 1849a . De...

... ). The AASHO Road Test: Proceedings of a Conference. Highway Research Board Special Report no. 73. Washington, D.C., 1962 . Dupuit , Jules. De l'Utilité et de sa mesure . Edited by Mario de Bernardi. Turin, 1933 . Dupuit , Jules. “Public Works and the Consumer”. In Transport , edited...

... Principles of the Theory of Wealth , translated by N. T. Bacon. New York, 1897. Dupuit , Jules , 1844 . “On the Measurement of the Utility of Public Works,” translated by R. H. Barback. International Economic Papers , no. 2 (1952), p. 83 -110. Bordas , Louis , 1847 . “De la mesure de...

... on Dupuit's Bridges and the Theory of Marginal Cost Pricing.” History of Political Economy 8 ( 1976 ): 274 -77. Artz , F. B. The Development of Technical Education in France, 1500–1850 . Cambridge, Mass., 1966 . Aucoc , Léon “Conférence faite à l'Ecole impériale des ponts et...

... encompassed to a large extent those of his most innovative contemporaries in England and Europe interested in railway econom- ics (not only was Chadwick aware of Dupuit’s studies, for instance, but it was Chadwick, not Jevons, who provided English readers with the first synopsis of Dupuit’s...

... acknowledge the work of his predecessors, Schumpeter noted thah Marshall gave the Frenoh engineer-economist Jules Dupuit “but footnote recog- nition and this not in the right places.”l Much the same may be said of Jevons’s reference...

... of Political Economy 9 : 273 -82. Dupuit , J. 1849 . ‘On tolls and transport charges.’ Translated by E. Henderson in International Economic Papers no. 11 (London, 1962 ), p. 7. Edgeworth , F. Y. 1910 . ‘Applications of probabilities to economics.’ Economic Journal 20 : 284 -308, 441...

... change, to 9 382-387 of the definitive edition. The “Leson” in question, entitled, “Du monopole. Prix multiple,” starts out as a straightforward ac- count of Dupuit’s theory of price discrimination and then suddenly, without warning, though not without rhyme or reason, veers...

... but was limited by an inadequate grasp of the nature of public utility. Various engineers grappled unsuccessfully with the proper mea- sure of the benefits and costs that derive from public goods, until Dupuit ended the confusion by establishing the foundations of modern demand theory...

... or 7. From its beginnings with Jules Dupuit the theory of price discrimination was linked with marketing techniques and product differentiation; see R. B. Ekelund, Jr., “Price Discrimination and Product Differentiation in Economic Theory: An Early Analysis,” Quarterly Journal...

... Journal of Political Economy 33 . 3 : 193 -212. Dupuit , J. 1952 . ‘On the measurement of the utility of public works’ (1844). In R. H. Barback (trans.) International economic papers 2 : 83 -110. London. Ekelund , R. , and B. Gramm 1970 . ‘Early French contributions to Marshallian...

... to be a defense of Durkheim against Hayek’s strictures on constructivism. The paper by Hébert also defends French engineers against the charge of constructivism, arguing that some, such as Dupuit in partic- ular, were not guilty of this. But Hébert then attempts to build a case for the idea that Carl...

...” by Birner, which turns out to be a defense of Durkheim against Hayek’s strictures on constructivism. The paper by Hébert also defends French engineers against the charge of constructivism, arguing that some, such as Dupuit in partic- ular, were not guilty of this. But Hébert then attempts to build...