F. Y. Edgeworth's 'Mathematical Psychics' and Further Papers on Political Economy - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198287127 ISBN 13: 9780198287124

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2003

Riassunto

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926), scion of a leading Anglo-Irish family, was a classical scholar and mathematician who became the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford. He was the leading mathematical economist of his day and made major contributions to utilitarian ethics, probability theory, and statistics. Though little understood at that time, Edgeworth's work on contract theory has increasingly been recognized as vital to recent advances in game theory and the optimizing properties of markets under varying conditions. As editor of the Economic Journal, as a major contributor to Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, and as an inveterate reviewer of books on all subjects and in five European languages, Edgeworth's range of expertise was extraordinary by modern standards.

Three volumes of Papers Relating to Political Economy were published during Edgeworth's lifetime. This volume completes the project by including three important monographs ― Mathematical Psychics, New and Old Methods in Ethics, and On the Relation of Political Economy to War ― alongside all the articles and reviews that were not included in the first three volumes. In addition to a selection of Edgeworth's contributions to the Palgrave Dictionary, this volume also contains a complete bibliography of Edgeworth's writings compiled by Alberto Baccini. It is prefaced by assessments of Edgeworth's life and works written by the editor, Peter Newman, the leading authority on the subject.

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Professor Peter Newman was born in Mitcham, Surrey and educated at University College, London and Nuffield College, Oxford. He held posts at the Admiralty's Department of Operational Research and in the Planning Secretariat of Ceylon before becoming a lecturer at the University of West Indies. From 1966 until his retirement in 1990 he was Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and later Emeritus Professor. He died in New Zealand in November 2001.

Contenuti:

• I. Monographs
• Mathematical Psychics (1881)
• New and Old Methods of Ethics
• On the Relations of Political Economy to War
• II. Journal Articles
• Matthew Arnold of Butler's Doctrine of Self-Love
• The Rationale of Exchange
• The Mathematical Theory of Banking
• Points at which Mathematical Reasoning is Applicable to Political Economy
• La théorie mathématique de l'offre et de la demande et le côut de production (translated)
• Osservazioni sulla teoria matematica dell'economia politica con riguardo speciale ai Principia di Economia de Alfredo Marshall (translated)
• Ancora a proposito della teoria del Baratto; A. Berry: Alcune brevi parole sulla teoria del Baratto di A. Marshall (translated)
• The Mathematical Economics of Professor Amoroso
• Equal Pay to Men and Women for Equal Work
• The Revised Doctrine of Marginal Social Product
• III. Selected Articles in Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy
• Attwood and the Birmingham School
• Barter and Exchange
• Competition and Regulation
• Cournot, Antoine Augustin
• Curves
• Demand Curves
• De Quincey, Thomas
• Difficulty of Attainment
• Distance in Time as an Element of Value
• Exchange, Value in
• Gossen, Hermann Heinrich
• Higgling
• Indifference, Law of
• Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming
• Margin (in economics)
• Mathematical Method in Political Economy
• Pareto's Law
• Pareto, Vilfredo
• Pleasure and Pain
• IV. Book Reviews
• W. Stanley Jevons: The State in Relation to Labour
• W. Stanley Jevons: Methods of Social Reform
• W. Stanley Jevons: Investigations in Currency and Finance
• Journal and Letters of W. Stanley Jevons, edited by his wife
• Philip H. Wicksteed: The Alphabet of Economic Science
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: Kapital und Kapitalzins
• Charles Booth (ed.): Life and Labour, Vol. 1—-East London
• Léon Walras: Eléments d'economie politique pure
• Robert Perceval Graves: Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton
• Alfred Marshall: Principles of Economics, Vol. 1
• Alfred Marshall: Principles of Economics, Vol. 1
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: Capital and Interest
• James Bonar: Philosophy and Political Economy in some of their Historical Relations
• C. F. Bastable: The Theory of International Trade, with some of its Applications to Economic Policy
• Henry Ludwell Moore: Laws of Wages: An Essay in Statistical Economics
• W. E. Zawadski: Les mathémathiques appliquées à l'économie politique
• V: Bibliography

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198287127
• ISBN 13: 9780198287124
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 712
• Redattore: Newman Peter