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Ľon Walras, economist and liberal socialist : essays /

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the genesis of Ľon Walras's work and its impact on the history of economics. Through a thorough examination of both published and unpublished writings, correspondence, and personal notes, the book reveals new insights into Walrass intellectual evoluti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Potier, Jean-Pierre, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Series:Springer studies in the history of economic thought.
Subjects:
Walras, Léon, > 1834-1910.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Paternal Legacy and Formation of the Field of Political and Social Economy
  • Chapter 2. Auguste Walras as a Transmitter of Ideas: From Jean-Baptiste Say to Lon Walras
  • Chapter 3. From the Theory of Five Stages to the Industrial and Commercial Regime
  • Chapter 4. Taxonomy of Sciences and Divisions of Political and Social Economy: An Attempt at Reconstruction
  • Part II. Pure Economics and Its Reception
  • Chapter 5. Genesis of a Masterpiece: the Theory of General Economic Equilibrium
  • Chapter 6. The Conception of Free Competition in the lments dconomie politique pure
  • Chapter 7. An Early Reception of Pure Economics in Italy: The Correspondence with the Lombard-Venetians
  • Chapter 8. The Reception of Pure Economics in France (1873-1926)
  • Part III. Reforming the Teaching of Political Economy
  • Chapter 9. From Criticism to the Reform Plan for the Teaching of Political Economy in France in the xixth Century
  • Chapter 10. Teaching Social and Applied economics in Lausanne
  • Chapter 11. Lon Walras and the Commission of the University Library of Lausanne: the Purchases of Books in Economics
  • Part IV. Critique of "Orthodox" Liberalism and Empirical Socialism
  • Chapter 12. Ideas and Men: Criticism of the French Liberal School
  • Chapter 13. Criticism of Empirical Socialism: The Cases of Louis Blanc and the Saint-Simonians
  • Chapter 14. Lon Walras, Paul Voituron and Constant Leirens at the Editorial Team of Le Travail: The Polemics on Cooperation (1866-1867)
  • Part V. Social Reforms for the Implementation of a Liberal Socialism
  • Chapter 15. Organisation of the Labour Market, Labour Legislation and Social Insurance
  • Chapter 16. Towards the Repurchase of Land by the State and the Abolition of Taxes
  • Chapter 17. Public Services and Natural Monopolies: What Role for the State?
  • Chapter 18. Towards a Political Reform? Universal Suffrage and Professional Representation of Interests
  • Chapter 19. General Conclusion.