2011/02/14 by Gérard Debreu · 2 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Agriculture and Rural Development Research #Economic Theory and Institutions #Economic Theory and Policy
paper · doi:10.1057/9780230226203.3059
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I. The steady course on which mathematical economics has held for the past four decades sharply contrasts with its progress during the preceding century, which was marked by several major scientific accidents. One of them occurred in 1838, at the beginning of that period, with the publication of Augustin Cournot’s Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses. By its mathematical form and by its economic content, his book stands in splendid isolation in time; and in explaining its data historians of economic analysis in the first half of the nineteenth century must use a wide confidence interval. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.