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Book SynopsisIn this book Dr Walker brings together Dr William Jaffé's essays on the important and interesting work of Léon Walras, the founder of general equilibrium analysis. One of Jaffé's main interests was to explain the genesis of Walras's work, which he did by examining Walras's biography.
Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Walras's Biography: 1. Unpublished papers and letters of Léon Walras (1935); 2. Léon Walras, an economic advisor manqué (1975); Part II. The Genesis and Development of Walras's Ideas: 3. A. N. Isnard, progenitor of the Walrasian general equilibrium model (1969); 4. The birth of Léon Walras's Eléments (1977); 5. A centenarian on a bicentenarian: Léon Walras's Eléments on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1977); 6. Léon Walras and his relations with American economists (1960); Part III. The Scope of Walras's Work: 7. Léon Walras and his conception of economics (1956); 8. Léon Walras (1968); Part IV. Special Topics in Walras's Economics: 9. Léon Walras' theory of capital accumulation (1942); 10. Walras's theory of capital formation in the framework of his theory of general equilibrium (1953); 11. New light on an old quarrel: Barone's unpublished review of Wicksteed's 'Essay on the coordination of the laws of distribution' and related documents (1964); 12. The Walras-Poincaré correspondence on the cardinal measurability of utility (1977); 13. Walras' theory of tâtonnement: a critique of recent interpretations (1967); 14. Another look at Léon Walras's theory of tâtonnement (1981); Part V. Walras's Place in the History of Economic Thought: 15. Reflections on the importance of Léon Walras (1971); 16. Léon Walras's role in the 'marginal revolution' of the 1870s (1972); 17. Menger, Jevons and Walras de-homogenized (1976); 18. The normative bias of the Walrasian model: Walras versus Gossen (1977); 19. Walras's economics as others see it (1980); Index.
