Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …

knowledge of mathematical economics, having mastered and criticized Cournot as early as 1871. In 1884 he engaged in a multi …-round debate with the editors of The Nation over the economics of trade liberalization in the case of a proposed trade treaty with … Peirce's understanding of mathematical economics and to his philosophy of science. …

Standard histories of economics usually treat the “marginal revolution” of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the “classical” economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists – especially Jevons and Walras – viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …