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Louis Bachelier's 1900 dissertation on the theory of speculation has been recognized since its 1964 translation into English as a landmark in the emergence of the modern analysis of mathematical finance, efficient markets, and stochastic processes. His writings on the theory of speculation over...
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<title>Abstract</title> Guy Routh was an outstandingly incisive and severe critic of mainstream economic theory's abstraction, class bias, and empirical irrelevance. Routh's <italic>The Origin of Economic Ideas</italic> (1975 1989), with such chapter titles as “The Preposterous Origins” and “From Propaganda to Dogma”,...
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<title>Abstract</title> David Hume's classic statement of the quantity theory of money and the specie-flow mechanism of international adjustment in 1752 and Irving Fisher's authoritative restatement of the quantity theory in 1911 shared a concern with simultaneously upholding both the long-run neutrality and...
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This paper contrasts Irving Fisher’s monetary analysis of Xuctuations in output and employment with the competing cyclical approach to analysing such Xuctuations, with particular attention to a series of articles in the 1920s in which Fisher challenged the widely prevailing notion that truly...
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Women of Value seeks to better understand the lives and work of the women who helped to build the economics profession. A number of these papers focus on the sociology of the economics discipline including the failure to cite the work of women economists, graduate work by women and the personal...
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This important three volume set is a collection of key writings on game theory published before 1963. It makes many frequently-cited and historically important articles conveniently available to a wider audience.
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