Early methmatical economics, 1871-1915

Early Mathematical Economics charts the fundamental - methodological and analytical - change in economics that arose in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The main characteristics of this change included an increasing reliance on mathematical methods, a revolution in the theory of value, and the rise of general equilibrium theory.

This collection traces this long revolution over a fifty-year period for the first time, from William Stanley Jevons' The Theory of Political Economy (1871), to Eugen Slutsky's On the Theory of the Budget of the Consumer (1915).

This collection features: A wide variety of sources: articles, book extracts, reviews and letters. Pan-European coverage: includes material in English, French, German and Italian. Major figures including Marshall, Walras, Edgeworth, Fisher, Pareto. The most important controversies and debates inside early mathematical economics.

This collection is completed by a new introduction and provides a more complete picture to date of the formative era of modern economics.