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Mathematical Economics

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I. The steady course on which mathematical economics has held for the past four decades sharply contrasts with its progress during the preceding century, which was marked by several major scientific accidents. One of them occurred in 1838, at the beginning of that period, with the publication of Augustin Cournot’s Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses. By its mathematical form and by its economic content, his book stands in splendid isolation in time; and in explaining its data historians of economic analysis in the first half of the nineteenth century must use a wide confidence interval.

This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman

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