F. Y. Edgeworth's 'Mathematical Psychics' and Further Papers on Political Economy

Edited by Peter Newman

712 pages | numerous figures and 2 halftones | 234x156mm

978-0-19-828712-4 | Hardback | 08 May 2003

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Draws together significant writings on political economy by F. Y. Edgeworth
Includes introductions, editorial notes, and a comprehensive bibliography
Edited by the leading authority on Edgeworth's life and works
Makes available monograph contributions that have rarely been reprinted in an edited form

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926), scion of a leading Anglo-Irish family, was a classical scholar and mathematician who became the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford. He was the leading mathematical economist of his day and made major contributions to utilitarian ethics, probability theory, and statistics. Though little understood at that time, Edgeworth's work on contract theory has increasingly been recognized as vital to recent advances in game theory and the optimizing properties of markets under varying conditions. As editor of the Economic Journal, as a major contributor to Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, and as an inveterate reviewer of books on all subjects and in five European languages, Edgeworth's range of expertise was extraordinary by modern standards.

Three volumes of Papers Relating to Political Economy were published during Edgeworth's lifetime. This volume completes the project by including three important monographs — Mathematical Psychics, New and Old Methods in Ethics, and On the Relation of Political Economy to War — alongside all the articles and reviews that were not included in the first three volumes. In addition to a selection of Edgeworth's contributions to the Palgrave Dictionary, this volume also contains a complete bibliography of Edgeworth's writings compiled by Alberto Baccini. It is prefaced by assessments of Edgeworth's life and works written by the editor, Peter Newman, the leading authority on the subject.

Readership: Economists, political scientists, those interested in the fields of political economy and history of economic thought.

I. Monographs
Mathematical Psychics (1881)
New and Old Methods of Ethics
On the Relations of Political Economy to War
II. Journal Articles
Matthew Arnold of Butler's Doctrine of Self-Love
The Rationale of Exchange
The Mathematical Theory of Banking
Points at which Mathematical Reasoning is Applicable to Political Economy
La théorie mathématique de l'offre et de la demande et le côut de production (translated)
Osservazioni sulla teoria matematica dell'economia politica con riguardo speciale ai Principia di Economia de Alfredo Marshall (translated)
Ancora a proposito della teoria del Baratto; A. Berry: Alcune brevi parole sulla teoria del Baratto di A. Marshall (translated)
The Mathematical Economics of Professor Amoroso
Equal Pay to Men and Women for Equal Work
The Revised Doctrine of Marginal Social Product
III. Selected Articles in Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy
Attwood and the Birmingham School
Barter and Exchange
Competition and Regulation
Cournot, Antoine Augustin
Curves
Demand Curves
De Quincey, Thomas
Difficulty of Attainment
Distance in Time as an Element of Value
Exchange, Value in
Gossen, Hermann Heinrich
Higgling
Indifference, Law of
Jenkin, Henry Charles Fleeming
Margin (in economics)
Mathematical Method in Political Economy
Pareto's Law
Pareto, Vilfredo
Pleasure and Pain
IV. Book Reviews
W. Stanley Jevons: The State in Relation to Labour
W. Stanley Jevons: Methods of Social Reform
W. Stanley Jevons: Investigations in Currency and Finance
Journal and Letters of W. Stanley Jevons, edited by his wife
Philip H. Wicksteed: The Alphabet of Economic Science
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: Kapital und Kapitalzins
Charles Booth (ed.): Life and Labour, Vol. 1—-East London
Léon Walras: Eléments d'economie politique pure
Robert Perceval Graves: Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Alfred Marshall: Principles of Economics, Vol. 1
Alfred Marshall: Principles of Economics, Vol. 1
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: Capital and Interest
James Bonar: Philosophy and Political Economy in some of their Historical Relations
C. F. Bastable: The Theory of International Trade, with some of its Applications to Economic Policy
Henry Ludwell Moore: Laws of Wages: An Essay in Statistical Economics
W. E. Zawadski: Les mathémathiques appliquées à l'économie politique
V: Bibliography

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