1. Cournot as economist : 200 years of relevance / Jean Magnan de Bornier -- 2. Cournot's probabilistic epistemology / Thierry Martin -- 3. The functions of economic models / Bernard Walliser -- 4. From Cournot's principle to market efficiency / Glenn Shafer -- 5. War and peace / Robert J....

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...