.... COLANDER Les manuscrits math&matiques de Marx. Translated and edited, with an introduc- tion, by Alain Alcouffe. Paris: Economica, 1985. Pp. 351. Marx’s repute as an economist rests not at all on his mathematics, where his reach exceeds his grasp by a wide margin. Many therefore suppose...

..., to Section F of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Jevons’ “Notice of a General Math- ematical Theory of Political Economy.” No one besides the Secretary is known to have heard the paper read. The next year ELTI abstract was printed in the Report of the Thirty-Second Meeting...

... without any allusion to the mathematical analysis. 19. Jafft5, Correspondence of Walrcas, 1: 570-72, Letter 410. 20. Leon Walras, “Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs B l’application des math& matiques 11 1’6conomie politique,” Journal des bconomistea, 4th ser. 4, no. 12 (Dec. 1878): 470...

... in mathematics applied to political economy, but that the authority of the eminent mathe- matician Bertrand may be cited in support of that assertion,” he added, “I hope to show on some future occasion that M. Bertrand’s censures of Cournot and Prof. Walras are far too severe” (501). He seems to have...

... Gall 449 by Adolphe Quételet’s “social physics” and search for an “average man.” According to Theodore Porter (1986, 102), “Quételet proposed an iden- tifi cation of greatness with the mean”: the average was “not just a mathe- matical abstraction, but a moral ideal” (103)—it was even...

...). There, in a “very closely knit group,” as he recalled, he met those economists who “had a contri- bution to make to the task of reconstruction” (1991, 4). But Debreu again stood apart. He was the only one whose intellectual socialization in math- ematical purity was the protection from, rather than...

... of bookplates, signatures, and inscriptions in most of the lots. Texts from John Neville Keynes’s collection included fi rst editions of Antoine-Augustin Cournot’s Recherches sur les principes mathé- matiques (1838) and Principes de la theorie des richesses (1863); a sec- ond edition of Léon Walras’s...

... Century. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. Grollier de Servière, Gaspard. [1719] 1733. Recueil d’ouvrages curieux de mathé- matique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de monsieur de Grollier de Serviere avec des figures en taille-douce. Lyon: David Forey. Hahn, Roger. 1981. Science...

... and discussed a purely ordinal approach to utility and demand. To com- plete the discussion of Pareto’s utility theory, I also consider the theories and results in his Manual of Political Economy and “Économie mathé- matique.” The Manual was published in Italian in 1906 and translated into French...

...- issime, Paris, Guillaumin, 1881, 3-6 (see entry 143); and in Theorie math- tmatique de la richesse sociale, 1 19-23 (entry 150). 684 History of Political Economy I9:4 (1987) 1877 112 “Equations de la capitalisation.” Bulletin de la Sociktt Vaudoise des...

... Coherence, 268 Cartesianism: Bloor on, 257; I. B. Colander, David, 312 Cohen on, 34; Klamer on, 2 27- Collingwood, R .G ., 113-14 28, 231, 234, 235-36, 237, 239; Collins, Harry, 250 354 Index Columbia University, 173 “Coping with Math...

... sentence of 9125, What must we do in order to prove that the theoretical solution is identically the solution worked out by the market?7 4. Reading in the original, “Voila comment . . . les prix en resultent mathe- matiquement. Reste seulement a montrer, et c’est la le point...