This paper is a contribution to the debate surrounding the steady decline in importance of the history of economic thought within the economics curriculum. The relevance of the history of financial economics to this debate is examined and a ‘histories of economic thought’ strategy is...

This article presents the results of new research on the history of financial economics by analyzing the dissemination of Louis Bachelier's work.Louis Bachelier is doubtless the best known French mathematician in the history of modern finance theory. While recent studies have given us a fairly...

Financial economics and mathematical finance are the two traditional scientific disciplines that constitute modern financial theory. Although they still largely dominate modern financial theory, in the past few years a new “player” has increasingly been making itself felt and could lead to a...

To date, the history of financial economics has not discussed in detail the international diffusion of financial economics (henceforth modern finance). Modern finance was supposedly “introduced” in France in the 1970s. According to some historians of financial economics, it is an American...

Cet article analyse un aspect très peu étudié de l’histoire de la pensée managériale en France : le rôle des gestionnaires français dans l’organisation de l’économie financière pendant les années 1970-1980. Si les fondements de l’économie financière ont été posés par des...

The influence of physics on economics has been largely analyzed; the opposite influence also exists even if it has been less studied. In the last decades the relation between these two disciplines has increased. Economic models are more often used in physics (minority game, GARCH model, etc.). The...

Several authors have been interested in Ludwig Hamburger’s attempt to analyze business cycles with a nonlinear endogenous model in the early 1930s. Indeed, Hamburger was one of the first, if not the first, to suggest applying Van der Pol’s relaxation oscillations to business cycles. Ragnar...

The present rejoinder aims at rebutting Carret’s allegation of mistaken interpretation in our work. We expose mathematical errors in Carret’s work, also present in his publications with Assous. Then, and most importantly, we show the unfounded economic consequences that follow from erroneous...

This paper deals with the disciplinary dimension of a very new field called econophysics and shows that despite the fact that econophysics is regularly described as an interdisciplinary approach, it is in fact a multidisciplinary field. Beyond this observation, we note that recent developments...