Samuel Hollander and Pierangelo Garegnani have debated the appropriate interpretation of David Ricardo since 1973, without substantive agreement. On at least one issue--the interdependence of prices and output levels--the debate has stalled because textual exegesis cannot solve a logical...

Cournot's Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth ( 1838) was ignored by the economics profession for forty years before its rediscovery by Stanley W. Jevons and Leon Walras. In those years, the only published recognition of it was a ten-page review in 1857 b y...