Handbook on the History of Economic Analysis Volume I
Great Economists Since Petty and Boisguilbert
Edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz D. Kurz
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contents (alphabetical)
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: General introduction
- Chapter 2: William Petty (1623–1687)
- Chapter 3: Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646–1714)
- Chapter 4: John Law (1671–1729)
- Chapter 5: Richard Cantillon (c. 1680/90–1734)
- Chapter 6: Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689–1755)
- Chapter 7: François Quesnay (1694–1774) and Physiocracy
- Chapter 8: Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)
- Chapter 9: David Hume (1711–1776)
- Chapter 10: James Steuart [James Denham-Steuart] (1712–1780)
- Chapter 11: Adam Smith (1723–1790)
- Chapter 12: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)
- Chapter 13: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet (1743–1794)
- Chapter 14: Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
- Chapter 15: Achilles-Nicolas Isnard (1748–1803)
- Chapter 16: Henry Thornton (1760–1815)
- Chapter 17: Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)
- Chapter 18: Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832)
- Chapter 19: David Ricardo (1772–1823)
- Chapter 20: Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842)
- Chapter 21: Thomas Tooke (1774–1858)
- Chapter 22: Robert Torrens (c. 1780–1864)
- Chapter 23: Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783–1850)
- Chapter 24: Barthélemy-Charles Dunoyer de Segonzac (1786–1862)
- Chapter 25: Friedrich List (1789–1846)
- Chapter 26: Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)
- Chapter 27: Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801–1877)
- Chapter 28: Jules Dupuit (1804–1866)
- Chapter 29: John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
- Chapter 30: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865)
- Chapter 31: Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858)
- Chapter 32: Bruno Hildebrand (1812–1878)
- Chapter 33: Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817–1894)
- Chapter 34: Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883)
- Chapter 35: Clément Juglar (1819–1905)
- Chapter 36: Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912)
- Chapter 37: Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
- Chapter 38: Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (1834–1910)
- Chapter 39: William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)
- Chapter 40: Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1835–1917)
- Chapter 41: Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838–1917)
- Chapter 42: Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900)
- Chapter 43: Carl Menger (1840–1921)
- Chapter 44: Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)
- Chapter 45: Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844–1927)
- Chapter 46: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926)
- Chapter 47: John Bates Clark (1847–1938)
- Chapter 48: Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923)
- Chapter 49: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914)
- Chapter 50: Knut Wicksell (1851–1926)
- Chapter 51: Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926)
- Chapter 52: Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924)
- Chapter 53: Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857–1929)
- Chapter 54: Antonio De Viti de Marco (1858–1943)
- Chapter 55: John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940)
- Chapter 56: Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
- Chapter 57: Enrico Barone (1859–1924)
- Chapter 58: Max Weber (1864–1920)
- Chapter 59: Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky (1865–1919)
- Chapter 60: Gustav Cassel (1866–1945)
- Chapter 61: Irving Fisher (1867–1947)
- Chapter 62: Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868–1931)
- Chapter 63: Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868–1913)
- Chapter 64: Louis Bachelier (1870–1946)
- Chapter 65: Arthur Spiethoff (1873–1957)
- Chapter 66: Albert Aftalion (1874–1956)
- Chapter 67: Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874–1948)
- Chapter 68: Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875–1945)
- Chapter 69: Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959)
- Chapter 70: Ralph George Hawtrey (1879–1975)
- Chapter 71: Evgeny Evgenievich Slutsky (1880–1948)
- Chapter 72: Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881–1973)
- Chapter 73: John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
- Chapter 74: Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950)
- Chapter 75: Frank H. Knight (1885–1972)
- Chapter 76: Karl Polanyi (1886–1964)
- Chapter 77: Walter Eucken (1891–1950)
- Chapter 78: Erik Lindahl (1891–1960)
- Chapter 79: Adolph Lowe (1893–1995)
- Chapter 80: Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895–1973)
- Chapter 81: Jacob Marschak (1898–1977)
- Chapter 82: Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987)
- Chapter 83: Lionel Charles Robbins (1898–1984)
- Chapter 84: Piero Sraffa (1898–1983)
- Chapter 85: Edward Hastings Chamberlin (1899–1967)
- Chapter 86: Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992)
- Chapter 87: Micha_ Kalecki (1899–1970)
- Chapter 88: Roy Forbes Harrod (1900–1978)
- Chapter 89: Abba Ptachya Lerner (1903–1982)
- Chapter 90: John von Neumann (1903–1957)
- Chapter 91: Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930)
- Chapter 92: Joan Violet Robinson (1903–1983)
- Chapter 93: George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903–1992)
- Chapter 94: Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994)
- Chapter 95: John Richard Hicks (1904–1989)
- Chapter 96: Oskar Ryszard Lange (1904–1965)
- Chapter 97: Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905–1989)
- Chapter 98: Wassily W. Leontief (1905–1999)
- Chapter 99: Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905–1946)
- Chapter 100: James Edward Meade (1907–1995)
- Chapter 101: Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986)
- Chapter 102: Ronald Harry Coase (1910–2013)
- Chapter 103: Richard Abel Musgrave (1910–2007)
- Chapter 104: Tibor Scitovsky (1910–2002)
- Chapter 105: Maurice Allais (1911–2010)
- Chapter 106: Milton Friedman (1912–2006)
- Chapter 107: Abram Bergson [Abram Burk] (1914–2003)
- Chapter 108: Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915–2009)
- Chapter 109: Herbert Alexander Simon (1916–2001)
- Chapter 110: James Tobin (1918–2002)
- Chapter 111: James M. Buchanan (1919–2013)
- Chapter 112: Hyman Philip Minsky (1919–1996)
- Chapter 113: Kenneth Joseph Arrow (b. 1921)
- Chapter 114: Gérard Debreu (1921–2004)
- Chapter 115: Don Patinkin (1922–1995)
- Chapter 116: Michio Morishima (1923–2004)
- Chapter 117: Robert Merton Solow (b. 1924)
- Chapter 118: John Forbes Nash Jr (1928–2015)
- Chapter 119: Robert Alexander Mundell (b. 1932)
- Chapter 120: Takashi Negishi (b. 1933)
- Chapter 121: Amartya Kumar Sen (b. 1933)
- Chapter 122: Robert E. Lucas (b. 1937)
- Chapter 123: George Akerlof (b. 1940)
- Chapter 124: Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (b. 1943)
- Chapter 125: Paul Robin Krugman (b. 1953)
- Index
Chapter 46: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926)
John Creedy
Handbook Chapter
- Published in print:
- 29 Jul 2016
- Category:
- Handbook Chapter
- Pages:
- (5 total)
Extract
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926) was a leading figure in the rapid development of economics during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century. He held the Drummond Chair at Oxford from 1891 and was regarded as second only to the great Cambridge economist Alfred Marshall. He was a prolific and highly original author who, in a cosmopolitan age, had probably the widest correspondence with economists all over the world. For a full-length treatment of Edgeworth’s economics, see Creedy (1986), and for a biography, see Barbé (2010). He was a man of enormously wide reading and considerable linguistic skills. He was the first editor of the Economic Journal, published by the newly formed Royal Economic Society. He was President of Section F of the British Association in 1889 and 1922. He achieved eminence as a statistician as well as an economist, becoming a Guy Medallist (Gold) of the Royal Statistical Society in 1907 and was President of the Society, 1912–14. Indeed, of about 170 papers, roughly three-quarters are concerned with statistical theory. His main contributions to statistics concern work on inference and the “law of error”, the correlation coefficient, transformations (what he called “methods of translation”), and the “Edgeworth expansion”. The latter, a series expansion which provides an alternative to the Pearson family of distributions, has been widely used (particularly since the work of Sargan 1976) to improve on the central limit theorem in approximating sampling distributions. It has also been used...
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- Contents
- Contents (alphabetical)
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: General introduction
- Chapter 2: William Petty (1623–1687)
- Chapter 3: Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert (1646–1714)
- Chapter 4: John Law (1671–1729)
- Chapter 5: Richard Cantillon (c. 1680/90–1734)
- Chapter 6: Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu (1689–1755)
- Chapter 7: François Quesnay (1694–1774) and Physiocracy
- Chapter 8: Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)
- Chapter 9: David Hume (1711–1776)
- Chapter 10: James Steuart [James Denham-Steuart] (1712–1780)
- Chapter 11: Adam Smith (1723–1790)
- Chapter 12: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)
- Chapter 13: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet (1743–1794)
- Chapter 14: Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
- Chapter 15: Achilles-Nicolas Isnard (1748–1803)
- Chapter 16: Henry Thornton (1760–1815)
- Chapter 17: Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)
- Chapter 18: Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832)
- Chapter 19: David Ricardo (1772–1823)
- Chapter 20: Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773–1842)
- Chapter 21: Thomas Tooke (1774–1858)
- Chapter 22: Robert Torrens (c. 1780–1864)
- Chapter 23: Johann Heinrich von Thünen (1783–1850)
- Chapter 24: Barthélemy-Charles Dunoyer de Segonzac (1786–1862)
- Chapter 25: Friedrich List (1789–1846)
- Chapter 26: Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)
- Chapter 27: Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801–1877)
- Chapter 28: Jules Dupuit (1804–1866)
- Chapter 29: John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
- Chapter 30: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865)
- Chapter 31: Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858)
- Chapter 32: Bruno Hildebrand (1812–1878)
- Chapter 33: Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817–1894)
- Chapter 34: Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883)
- Chapter 35: Clément Juglar (1819–1905)
- Chapter 36: Gustave de Molinari (1819–1912)
- Chapter 37: Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
- Chapter 38: Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (1834–1910)
- Chapter 39: William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)
- Chapter 40: Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1835–1917)
- Chapter 41: Gustav Friedrich von Schmoller (1838–1917)
- Chapter 42: Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900)
- Chapter 43: Carl Menger (1840–1921)
- Chapter 44: Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)
- Chapter 45: Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844–1927)
- Chapter 46: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926)
- Chapter 47: John Bates Clark (1847–1938)
- Chapter 48: Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923)
- Chapter 49: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914)
- Chapter 50: Knut Wicksell (1851–1926)
- Chapter 51: Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926)
- Chapter 52: Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857–1924)
- Chapter 53: Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857–1929)
- Chapter 54: Antonio De Viti de Marco (1858–1943)
- Chapter 55: John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940)
- Chapter 56: Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
- Chapter 57: Enrico Barone (1859–1924)
- Chapter 58: Max Weber (1864–1920)
- Chapter 59: Mikhail Ivanovich Tugan-Baranovsky (1865–1919)
- Chapter 60: Gustav Cassel (1866–1945)
- Chapter 61: Irving Fisher (1867–1947)
- Chapter 62: Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868–1931)
- Chapter 63: Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev (1868–1913)
- Chapter 64: Louis Bachelier (1870–1946)
- Chapter 65: Arthur Spiethoff (1873–1957)
- Chapter 66: Albert Aftalion (1874–1956)
- Chapter 67: Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874–1948)
- Chapter 68: Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1875–1945)
- Chapter 69: Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959)
- Chapter 70: Ralph George Hawtrey (1879–1975)
- Chapter 71: Evgeny Evgenievich Slutsky (1880–1948)
- Chapter 72: Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881–1973)
- Chapter 73: John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
- Chapter 74: Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950)
- Chapter 75: Frank H. Knight (1885–1972)
- Chapter 76: Karl Polanyi (1886–1964)
- Chapter 77: Walter Eucken (1891–1950)
- Chapter 78: Erik Lindahl (1891–1960)
- Chapter 79: Adolph Lowe (1893–1995)
- Chapter 80: Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (1895–1973)
- Chapter 81: Jacob Marschak (1898–1977)
- Chapter 82: Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987)
- Chapter 83: Lionel Charles Robbins (1898–1984)
- Chapter 84: Piero Sraffa (1898–1983)
- Chapter 85: Edward Hastings Chamberlin (1899–1967)
- Chapter 86: Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992)
- Chapter 87: Micha_ Kalecki (1899–1970)
- Chapter 88: Roy Forbes Harrod (1900–1978)
- Chapter 89: Abba Ptachya Lerner (1903–1982)
- Chapter 90: John von Neumann (1903–1957)
- Chapter 91: Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–1930)
- Chapter 92: Joan Violet Robinson (1903–1983)
- Chapter 93: George Lennox Sharman Shackle (1903–1992)
- Chapter 94: Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994)
- Chapter 95: John Richard Hicks (1904–1989)
- Chapter 96: Oskar Ryszard Lange (1904–1965)
- Chapter 97: Richard Ferdinand Kahn (1905–1989)
- Chapter 98: Wassily W. Leontief (1905–1999)
- Chapter 99: Heinrich von Stackelberg (1905–1946)
- Chapter 100: James Edward Meade (1907–1995)
- Chapter 101: Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986)
- Chapter 102: Ronald Harry Coase (1910–2013)
- Chapter 103: Richard Abel Musgrave (1910–2007)
- Chapter 104: Tibor Scitovsky (1910–2002)
- Chapter 105: Maurice Allais (1911–2010)
- Chapter 106: Milton Friedman (1912–2006)
- Chapter 107: Abram Bergson [Abram Burk] (1914–2003)
- Chapter 108: Paul Anthony Samuelson (1915–2009)
- Chapter 109: Herbert Alexander Simon (1916–2001)
- Chapter 110: James Tobin (1918–2002)
- Chapter 111: James M. Buchanan (1919–2013)
- Chapter 112: Hyman Philip Minsky (1919–1996)
- Chapter 113: Kenneth Joseph Arrow (b. 1921)
- Chapter 114: Gérard Debreu (1921–2004)
- Chapter 115: Don Patinkin (1922–1995)
- Chapter 116: Michio Morishima (1923–2004)
- Chapter 117: Robert Merton Solow (b. 1924)
- Chapter 118: John Forbes Nash Jr (1928–2015)
- Chapter 119: Robert Alexander Mundell (b. 1932)
- Chapter 120: Takashi Negishi (b. 1933)
- Chapter 121: Amartya Kumar Sen (b. 1933)
- Chapter 122: Robert E. Lucas (b. 1937)
- Chapter 123: George Akerlof (b. 1940)
- Chapter 124: Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (b. 1943)
- Chapter 125: Paul Robin Krugman (b. 1953)
- Index