This article revisits the reasons why Leon Walras did not give enough consideration to the economic and social analysis of Adolphe Landry. Both were fervent defenders of socialism and their recommendations for social economics are based on thorough economic analysis. We show that Walras did not...

This article contributes to the explanation of the methodological differences between Cournot and Walras when these authors apply mathematics to economics. Our article explains the reasons behind Cournot’s refusal when Walras required him to write an article, which advocates the application of...

[eng] The subject of this article is to show how Alfred Marshall's work contains an evolutionist description about the localised systems of production. At the same time, he borrows from the theory of partial equilibrium and from the industrial dynamic highlighting concepts such as pecuniary...

[fre] L'objet de cet article est double. Premièrement de rappeler, d'une part, l'origine historique du traitement des externalités afin de resituer la problématique développée par R. Coase dans Problem of social cost [1960], d'autre part, de montrer que le théorème de Coase, formulé en...

The specialists of Pareto?s economic and sociological writings, underline that his theory of action is based on a drastic division between logical actions and non-logical ones; the first referring to economic activities and the second to sociological relationships. Some kinds of actions will be...

By illuminating the philosophical roots of the various notions of knowledge employed by economists, this Handbook helps to disentangle conceptual and typological issues surrounding the debate on knowledge amongst economists. Wide-ranging in scope, it explores fundamental aspects of the...