The evolutionist economics of Léon Walras [electronic resource] / Albert Jolink.
This study offers a new perspective of Walras' pure, applied and social economics. Through archival research at the University of Lausanne, Jolink considers Walras' ideas on philosophy and philosophy of science based on a newly constructed taxonomy. Walras' work is placed in a broader...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the history of economics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; THE EVOLUTIONIST ECONOMICS OF LÉON WALRAS; Copyright; CONTENTS; FIGURES; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 EVOLUTION AND PROGRESS; EVOLUTION DEFINED; STAGES IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS; FROM NATURAL ORDER TO SOCIAL CONSTRUCT; 2 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WALRAS; THE WALRASIAN DREAM; SOCIAL VIEWS; POLITICAL VIEWS; 3 INDICATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY; THE ROMANTIC TOUCH; PHILOSOPHIA PRIMA; PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; 'THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE'; 4 INDICATIONS OF HISTORY; THE SAINT-SIMONIAN SEDUCTION; A WALRASIAN STAGES THEORY; THE 'SOCIAL QUESTION'; THEORETICAL CONSEQUENCES.
- 5 INDICATIONS OF SCIENCEA GENERAL THEORY OF SOCIETY; 'CLASSIFIED' FACTS; TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS; THE ECONOMIC SCIENCES; Structuring the order; Ordering the structure; 6 THE ELEMENTS; ELEMENTS OF EXCHANGE; An inquiry into the nature and causes of value in exchange; Social wealth and the mechanism; Laws and consequences; THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIETY; Man in society; The best of both worlds; 'The superior law of social organization'; 7 THE APPLIED; ORGANIZING FREE COMPETITION; Individual vs. public interests; Restrictions on laissez-faire; THE PROPERTY OF TAXATION; On property; On taxation.
- 8 ECONOMICS OF TRANSITIONSAVINGS AND CAPITAL FORMATION; Commercial tides; ECONOMIC PROGRESS AND MONETARY REFORM; Land reform and evolution; 9 FROM ROMANTICISM TO LOGICAL POSITIVISM; ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM; THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY AND EVOLUTIONIST ECONOMICS; IN THE ARMS OF POSITIVISM; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.