The history of economic analysis : selected essays

by John Creedy (Wellington School of Business and Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

This book brings together John Creedy's most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes to our understanding of the development of economics by looking at the subject and some of its major players including Pareto, Edgeworth, Marshall and Wicksell, from an historical perspective. It reveals how learning about a subject and its past is critical to understanding current debates

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Year of publication:	1998
Authors:	Creedy, John
Institutions:	Edward Elgar Publishing (publisher)
Publisher:	Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
Subject:	Wirtschaftstheorie \| Economic theory \| Ökonomische Ideengeschichte \| History of economic thought \| Wohlfahrtsökonomik \| Welfare economics \| Theorie \| Theory \| Volkswirtschaftslehre \| Geschichte

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (vii, 348 pages) illustrations
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Preface -- 1. Pareto and the distribution of income -- 2. Edgeworth's contribution to the theory of exchange -- 3. Some recent interpretations of mathematical psychics -- 4. The early use of lagrange multipliers in economics -- 5. Francis ysidro edgeworth -- 6. F.y. Edgeworth's mathematical training -- 7. F.y. Edgeworth: Utilitarianism and arbitration -- 8. Public finance -- 9. On the king-davenant law of demand -- 10. Wicksell on edgeworth's tax paradox -- 11. Whewell's 'translation' of j.s. Mill -- 12. Marshall and edgeworth -- 13. Marshall, monopoly and rectangular hyperbolas -- 14. Commentary on English speaking pioneers in value and distribution theory -- 15. Marshall and international trade -- 16. Mangoldt and inter-related goods -- 17. Consumers' surplus and international trade: Marshall's example -- 18. The role of stocks in supply and demand analysis -- 19. Jevons's complex cases in the theory of exchange -- 20. Cournot on trade between regions and the transition from partial to general equilibrium modelling -- 21. Launhardt's model of exchange -- 22. Exchange equilibria: Bargaining, utilitarian and competitive solutions -- 23. The rise and fall of walras's demand and supply curves -- Index.
ISBN:	978-1-0353-0606-0 ; 978-1-85898-908-2
Other identifiers:	10.4337/9781035306060 [DOI]
Classification:	Philosophie und Theorie der Volkswirtschaft
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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