cournot antoine augustine (11 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Tips of corners show faint wear but book is otherwise excellent, very clean and sharp, with a tight binding. Most pages uncut.

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Couverture souple. Condizione: Neuf. LIVRE NON COUPÉ.

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leather_bound. Condizione: Very Good. Due volumi rilegati in mezza pelle con titolo in oro su etichetta applicata al dorso, piatti marezzati, vol. 1^ di xiv(4)-495 pagine con 5 tavole in nero ripiegate in chiusura; vol. 2^, di 533 pagine con 2 tavole senpre in nero in chiusura del volume. Lacuna con restauro al frontespizio di entrambi i libri senza perdita del testo, fioriture interne non particolarmente accentuate, peraltro i due tomi sono in buone condizioni nelle loro legature ben salde. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine. Book.

Couverture souple. Condizione: Comme neuf.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. [xx], 494 pp, 2 leaves (errata); [viii], 527 pp, 1 leaf (errata); 6 folding plates. Vol. I: Buckram. Vol. II: Original printed wrappers. A Very Good set. For Cournot, see the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

An uncommon early work by A.A. Cournot (1801-1877), student of Poisson, giant in the history of probability, and father of mathematical economics. ".[Cournot] had the distinction of having been the first to dissociate--in a radical way--various ideas that were still obscure, thus opening the way for deeper and more systematic research by more exact mathematicians. He was also able to show clearly the importance of the applications of the calculus of probability to the scientific description and explanation of human actsÓ (G. Granger in D.S.B.). Two volumes, octavo. [XX], 494, [2, errata]; [VIII], 527, [1, errata] pp. Six engraved folding plates. Original brown cloth over marbled boards, gilt spine. Boards lightly rubbed, a couple of ink stains on edges, a little foxing. A very good, tight set. First edition.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. 8vo., (8 2/8 x 5 inches). Half-titles. 6 folding plates (spotted throughout). Red morocco backed marbled paper boards, gilt (scuffed, a bit marked). Provenance: some offsetting from a manuscript leaf, now absent, to the verso of the first blank in volume II. First edition. Cournot was a well-known French economist and mathematician. He was the first economist who, "with competent knowledge of both subjects, endeavoured to apply mathematics to the treatment of economics. His main work in economics is 'Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses' (1838; "Research into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth"). His primary concern was the analysis of partial market equilibrium, which he based on the assumption that participants in the process of exchange are either producers or merchants whose goal is the maximization of profit. He therefore ignored the concept of utility. His most important contributions were his discussions of supply and demand functions and of the establishment of equilibrium under conditions of monopoly, duopoly, and perfect competition; his analysis of the shifting of taxes, which he treated as changes in the cost of production; and his discussion of problems of international trade" (Encyclopedia Britannica online). In this book Cournot "sought to understand how, by the progress of mathematical abstraction, it is necessary to conceive the existence of a theory that relates to the general properties of continuous functions" (Preface). Catalogued by Kate Hunter.