Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Economics at Harvard and MIT -- Chapter 3: Economics at the Cowles Commission in Chicago and Yale -- Chapter 4: Economics at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA) in Pittsburgh -- Chapter 5: The development of the theory of games at...

It is argued that Joseph Schumpeter's widely accepted judgment that Pareto's work is 'completely rooted in Walras's system' constitutes a misreading of Pareto. In fact, already during the period 1892-1900, Pareto traces the methodological outlines of an economic science profoundly different from...

In the period of the first spread and consolidation of mathematical economics there was impotant debate on Walras's theory of exchange involving Edgeworth, Walras and Bortkievicz directly, and Marshall indirectly. The dispute may be traced back to issues involving the role of abstract reasoning...

In the twentieth century, economics was dominated by the idea that rigorous thinking is limited to the natural sciences. This belief has gotten in the way of contemporary economists' understanding of Marshall's legacy. Marshall conceived of economics as a science of complexity. Hence, he...

Since the 1950s, beginning with the Gerschenkron’s classical article, a great number of studies have dealt with the issue of the Italian economic growth in the post-unification period. In this regard, an important work of reconstructing of historical data series has been accomplished,...