This paper presents Léon Walras and Augustin Cournot views on monetary regulation. Important differences can be found in their views about the convenience of the issuing of paper money and fiat money in general. Whereas Walras is against bank notes, even if coming from a central bank, Cournot...

This paper analyses how Cournot‟s views on Monopoly have influenced the marginalists authors. It is argued that there are two different points of view in the cournotian evaluation of the consequence of Monopoly. The first one is a purely theoretical construction adopted in modern economic...

Modern microeconomics foundations of industrial regulation policies were developed during the second half of the 19th century. One of the main theoretical and applied debates which is still an issue today concerns natural monopolies. Railroads were at the center of these debates, because of...

This paper is part of a larger research project on the evolution of the Perfect Competition concept in a historical perspective. We try to follow the changes this concept has gone through from the different alternative views during the so-called Marginal Revolution" towards the consolidation of...

El reciente auge de la neuroeconomía ha abierto una serie de preguntas sobre el impacto que esta nueva disciplina puede tener sobre la forma en que se hace teoría económica. Este trabajo busca resaltar la relevancia que la metodología en ciencia económica tiene como herramienta...

El presente artículo pretende ubicar a la Nueva Economía Política como una corriente de pensamiento económico alimentada de trabajos y corrientes anteriores, identifica sus fuentes originarias, sus campos de estudio, y metodologías para el entendimiento del desarrollo de las sociedades y de...