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Leon Walras's Mathematical Economics and the Mechanical Analogies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Albert Jolink  and
Jan Van Daal
Albert Jolink
Affiliation:
Tinbergen Institute and Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jan Van Daal
Affiliation:
Tinbergen Institute and Erasmus University Rotterdam
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In April 1909 Léon Walras (1834–1910) presented his last lecture before the Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles at Lausanne. The subject dealt with in this lecture was the analogy between the mathematics used in economics and that employed in mechanics; it is reformulated in what turned out to be one of Walras's last publications, entitled ‘Economique et Mécanique.’

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 1989 , pp. 25 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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