Equilibrium in economics : scope and limits /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mosini, Valeria
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 83.
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : three ways of looking at economic equilibrium / Valeria Mosini
  • Equilibrium in mechanics and then in economics, 1860-1920 : a good source for analogies? / Ivor Grattan-Guinness
  • Between economics and chemistry : Lavoisier's and Le Chatelier's notions of equilibrium / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Valeria Mosini
  • The ubiquity of the notion of equilibrium in biology, and its relation to equilibrium in economics / Louise Jarvis and Valeria Mosini
  • 'Sympathy', character and economic equilibrium / William Dixon and David Wilson
  • Economic equilibrium in the French Enlightenment : the case of A.N. Isnard / Richard van den Berg
  • Influences on the economic theory of A.A. Cournot : mechanics, physics and biology / François Vatin
  • Tensions in modern economics : the case of equilibrium analysis / Tony Lawson
  • Equilibrium and problem solving in economics / Roger E. Backhouse
  • Equilibrium analysis : a middlebrow view / Warren J. Samuels
  • Equilibrium in economics, stability and stationarity in econometrics / Jim Thomas
  • Equilibrium in economics : some concepts and controversies / Victoria Chick
  • Heavens above : what equilibrium means for economics / Alan Freeman
  • The hypostatisation of the concept of equilibrium in neoclassical economics / Andy Denis.