Suivant la tradition de Cournot, Mill et Marshall, on étudie un modèle d’équilibre général s’appliquant à des pays et non à des individus, sous l’hypothèse que les préférences individuelles peuvent être agrégées. Ce modèle couvre à la fois le cas d’équilibre concurrentiel...

This is a unique account of the role played by 58 figures and diagrams commonly used in economic theory. These cover a large part of mainstream economic analysis, both microeconomics and macroeconomics and also general equilibrium theory.

From the point of view of consumer demand theory the linear expenditure system (LES) provides a convenient model for representing consumer response to price and income and its linearity is one of its most attractive features. But when estimation problems are discussed, the descriptive adjective...

1. Basic concepts and principles of political economy / Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann -- 2. Price determination through desire or demand / Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann -- 3. Extract from the second letter to Adolphe Quetelet / Karl Heinrich Rau -- 4. The valuation of national...