...Bradley W. Bateman Frank Ramsey (1903–1930): A Sister's Memoir . By Paul Margaret . Huntingdon : Smith-Gordon , 2012 . 304 pp . $30.00 . Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 References Keynes J. M. 1930 . “F. P. Ramsey.” Economic Journal 40 ( March...

...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...

...Jean Baccelli jean.baccelli@gmail.com Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers . By Misak Cheryl . New York : Oxford University Press , 2020 . xxxvi ; 544 pp. $32.95 . Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 References Borel Émile . 1924 . “ A propos...

...Jun-ji Shih History of Political Economy 21:2 0 1989 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/89/$1.50 Edgeworth’s contribution to the theory of “Ramsey pricing” Jun-ji Shih...

...Pedro Garcia Duarte Besomi, D., ed. 2003 . The Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod. Vol. 1 , Correspondence, 1919–35 . Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Duarte, P. G. 2008 . Another Chapter in the History of Ramsey's Optimal Feasible Taxation. Working paper. Keynes, J...

...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...

... 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...

... that defines the saving ratio in the economy. However, the road connecting Solow to the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model is not so straightforward. We argue that in order to understand Koopmans’s contribution, we have to go to the activity analysis literature that started before Solow 1956 and never had him...

.... 1971 . Preferences Utility and Demand . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Corlett, W. J., and Douglas C. Hague. 1953-54 . Complementarity and the Excess Burden of Taxation. Review of Economic Studies 24 : 21 -30. Diamond, Peter A. 1975 . A Many Person Ramsey Tax Rule. Journal of Public...

... and Politics . London: Macmillan. Parfit , D. 1984 . Reasons and Persons . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ramsey , F. P. 1978 . Foundations of Mathematics . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Rawls , J. 1971 . A Theory of Justice . Cambridge: Harvard University Press...

... Economy 30:4 0 1998 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...

...: An Economist's Biography. London: Routledge. Runde , J. 1993 . Keynes After Ramsey, manuscript. Girton College, University of Cambridge. Simon , H. 1986 . Rationality in Psychology and Economics. Part 2. Journal of Business 59 . 4 : S209 -24. Skidelsky , R. 1983 . John Maynard...

... 1951 paper, which Davidson and Suppes themselves present as motivating their own work. I picked these specific examples not just because they fall within the expertise of the readers of this journal. Carefully consid- ered, they also convey the sense that Misak s presentation of Ramsey may be more...

... 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...

... . Pontryagin L. S. Boltyanski V. G. Gamkrelidze R. V. Mishchenko E. F. . 1962 . The Mathematical Theory of Optimal Processes . New York : Interscience (John Wiley) . Ramsey F. 1928 . “A Mathematical Theory of Saving.” Economic Journal 38 ( 152 ): 543 – 59 . Robinson...

...-confidence, he had a some- times fragile ego in questions of love. Paul’s biography is no hagiography. In his foreword to the book, the philosopher Brian McGuiness quotes a piece that Wittgenstein wrote a few months after Ramsey’s death in which he said of his translator, “He had an ugly mind...

... , John Maynard . 1931 . Review of Foundations of Mathematics, by Frank P. Ramsey. New Statesman and Nation, 3 October, 407 . Keynes , John Maynard . 1933 . The Means to Prosperity. London: Macmillan. Keynes , John Maynard . 1936 . The General Theory of Employment, Interest...

..., and, as such, is diagnosable by modern psychiatrists” (86). 12. See Mossner [1954] 1980, 103–4, on the “mellowing” of Hume while in France. 464 History of Political Economy 39:3 (2007) He arrived in France no later than August because he dated his third let- ter to former schoolmate Michael Ramsey as 12 September...

... to Chaos Analysis . In Jonung 1991. Berg, C. 1991 . Lundberg, Keynes, and the Riddles of a General Theory . In Jonung 1991. Boianovsky, M. 1995 . Wicksell's Business Cycle. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 2.2 : 375 –411. ———. 1998 . Wicksell, Ramsey, and the Theory...

... of Ramsey’s Growth Model .” In Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics , edited by Boianovsky Mauro Hoover Kevin D. . History of Political Economy 41 (supplement) : 161 – 81 . doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2009-022 . Ely Richard T. 1918 . “ Conservation and Economic Theory...