From Walras to Pareto / Edition 1

by Jürgen Backhaus, J.A. Hans Maks

Overview

In this thought-provoking collection, ten international scholars offer reflections and new interpretations of Walras’ and Pareto’s unique contributions to topics including the importance of the social sciences, the development of modern microeconomics and econometrics, political economy and public choice, and political sociology. Their insights will interest researchers and scholars of economic history, political sociology, and the social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387337562
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	09/12/2006
Series:	The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences , #4
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Neo-Austrian, Industrial and Ordo-Austrian Competition Policy.- From Walras to Pareto. Introduction.- Leon Walras.- The General Equilibrium Theory in Japanese Economic Thought: From Walras to Morishima.- Gross Substitutes, Walras’ “Rareté” and the Stability of the Middle Class.- Léon Walras and the English Classical School: Walras’s Production Theory Revisited.- Léon Walras’s Economics*: From Pure to Normative?.- What Went Wrong with Walras? The Econometric Transformation Process of Walrasian Economics during the 1920s and 1930s.- Vilfredo Pareto.- Vilfredo Pareto and Public Choice: A Reappraisal.- Economic Equilibria and the Balancing Act between Total and Partial Analysis.- Two Views on Pareto’s Current Relevance*: Warren Samuel’s Foreword to Pareto, Economics and Society.