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Walras and Cournot’s mathematical method: comparison and discord challenge.

Ragni, Ludovic - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2011) 60, pp. 149-178

This article contributes to the explanation of the methodological differences between Cournot and Walras when these authors apply mathematics to economics. Our article explains the reasons behind Cournot’s refusal when Walras required him to write an article, which advocates the application of...

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PRICE-TAKERS VS. GREAT NUMBERS: A CRITIQUE OF THE EDGEWORTH - WALRAS CONVERGENCE À LA DEBREU - SCARF

Álvarez, Andrés - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2012) 63, pp. 77-108

We discuss the traditional interpretation of Edgeworth’s conception of competition neo-Walrasian authors developed following the Debreu-Scarf ’s theorem legacy. This interpretation presents Edgeworth as the forerunner of the cooperative-games approach based on the notion of the core as a...

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The businessmen as knights of the social ideal: Alfred Marshall and the moralization of capitalism

Martinoia, Rozenn - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2012) 62, pp. 157-186

This article studies the role of the businessmen in Marshall’s views on the progress towards the social ideal. The … perspective and some of Marshall’s unpublished papers. It updates and questions the broadening process of the economic chivalry of …

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Character in Alfred Marshall’s work: not so commonplace?

Martinoia, Rozenn - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2014) 66, pp. 35-68

Character is commonly recognised as a crucial notion in Alfred Marshall’s thought, and more broadly in Victorian … of character in Marshall’s thought. While not denying that Marshall’s ideas evolve between his early writings and his … opportunity to re-examine Marshall’s conception of social ideal, on the basis of archives documents: Marshall conceives character …

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SUBJECTIVISME ÉCONOMIQUE, FIGURES DU BESOIN ET DE L’UTILITÉ MARGINALE À TRAVERS LES ÉDITIONS DES GRUNDSÄTZE (1871-1923) DE CARL MENGER

VERSAILLES, David W. - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2006) 51, pp. 91-107

This contribution argues that Menger’s Grundsätze ground economic subjectivism in cognitive features. It elaborates on need-satisfaction in relation with the use value of goods. It details the various forms raised for utility in Menger’s texts and distinguishes between both Grundsätze...

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Mathematics and Economics in J.H. von Thünen’s Natural Wage Theory

TUBARO, Paola - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2006) 50, pp. 59-85

This paper addresses Johann Heinrich von Thünen's income distribution theory (1850), highlighting the way the author develops his solution to the aforementioned problem -i.e. his well-known "natural wage" formula ap - by means of four different mathematical proofs, whose assumptions, purposes,...

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Is the Schumpeterian entrepreneur superhuman?

Lapied, André; Swaton, Sophie - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2013) 65, pp. 183-202

Most of Schumpeter’s commentators admit Nietzsche’s influence on the Schumpeterian conception of the entrepreneur. Nevertheless, from our point of view, this influence is often treated in the historical context and in a very limited definition of the entrepreneur. In this article, we argue...

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COMPETITION: THE WAYS TO PERFECTION

Ferreira, Rodolphe Dos Santos - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2012) 63, pp. 205-218

In the economic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, perfect competition rests on essentially two different types of foundations, the distinction of which has not always been emphasized enough. According to the first type, perfect competition prevails when the agents, small...

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NEGISHI ON EDGEWORTH ON JEVONS' LAW OF INDIFFERENCE, WALRAS’S EQUILIBRIUM, AND THE ROLE OF LARGE NUMBERS: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT

Donzelli, Franco - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2012) 63, pp. 109-154

In developing their pure-exchange equilibrium models, Jevons [1871], Walras [1874–77], and Edgeworth [1881] make use of some version of a law, called law of indifference (or principle of uniformity) by Jevons and Edgeworth and often referred to as the law of one price in connection with...

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Pauvreté et économie au XIXe siècle

Lallement, Jérôme - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2010) 59, pp. 119-140

Poverty was an ubiquitous theme in the literature of the beginning of the 19th century, and its analysis shifted from political or charitable perspectives to embrace a young science, namely the political economy. Stendhal’s example shows how political economy had become the only legitimate...

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