Search results for: 'WALRAS, Léon'
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ROBBINS, Lionel - WALRAS, Léon. Études d'économie sociale.Lausanne & Paris : 1936
The copy of the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed to him on the half-title by the editor Gaston Leduc: "A monsieur le professeur Lionel Robbins Hommage respectueux signature Prof. G. Leduc". A nice association: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140557
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WALRAS, Léon. Éléments d'économie politique pure ou théorie de la richesse sociale.Lausanne : 1874
First edition of part I only (pp. 1-208), written by one of the leading mathematical economists. Three years after Jevons and Menger, but independently of them, Walras here enunciated the theory of marginal utility. In this work he continued and refined the work inherited from his father and was successful in developing the law of general equilibrium... Learn More£13,750.00Stock Code: 112640
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WALRAS, Leon. Théorie de la monnaie.Lausanne : 1886
First edition of this important contribution to Walras's monetary theory, in fine condition, the final text in a contemporary Sammelband of six related works on bimetallism. The ideas in Théorie de la monnaie would be revisited and fully developed in the fourth edition of Walras's Eléments d'économie politique pure, published 14 years later. Schumpeter... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 141141
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WALRAS, Leon. [A single volume containing 10 titles demonstrating Walras's developing theories of economic equilibrium.]Various places : 1874-91
A substantial pamphlet volume, including the first edition of Théorie de la monnaie and the first separate editions of his articles on bimetallism and price variation, from the years of his "second phase of theoretical activity, his period of high creativity and maximum theoretical prolificacy" (Walker, p. 9), when he was in the process of developing... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 116829
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WALRAS, Auguste. De la nature de la richesse, et de l'origine de la valeur.Paris : 1831
Very scarce first edition, the Paris issue; it was also issued with an Evreux imprint. This is the principal work of Auguste Walras (1801-1866), father of Léon, in which can be found the point of departure for Léon's marginal utility theory. "A. A. Walras was one of the first economists who perceived that value was not determined by utility. He was... Learn More£11,000.00Stock Code: 140036
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WALRAS, Léon. Mathematische Theorie der Preisbestimmung der wirtschaftlichen Güter.Stuttgart : 1881
First edition in German of the four memoirs which together made up part of what was to become Walras's Théorie mathématique de la richesse sociale, originally published in 1877. The translator, Ludwig von Winterfeld, was a law student from Zurich. Having heard Walras lecture at Lausanne, in 1876 he offered to prepare a translation of Walras's Eléments... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 84020
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ROBBINS, Lionel - WALRAS, Léon. Abrégé des éléments d'économie politique pure.Paris & Lausanne, : 1938
First abridged edition, presentation copy from the editor to the British economist Lionel Robbins, inscribed by Leduc on the half-title: "Au prof. Robbins Hommage respectueux signature". A nice association: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated the... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140621
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ROBBINS, Lionel - WALRAS, Léon. Études d'économie politique appliquée.Lausanne & Paris : 1936
First Leduc edition, inscribed by the editor to the British economist Lionel Robbins on the half-title: "A monsieur le professeur Lionel Robbins Hommage respectueux signature Prof. G. Leduc". A nice association: Robbins, along with Keynes, was the leading British economist during the inter-war period; at the London School of Economics, he "dominated... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140622
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WALRAS, Leon. Éléments d'économie politique pure ou théorie de la richesse sociale.Lausanne : 1889
Second edition, revised, corrected and enlarged, of the French economist's major thesis which confirmed his status as the father of general equilibrium theory, first published in two parts in 1874 and 1877 respectively. Soon after becoming a professor of political economy at the University of Lausanne at the age of 36, Walras published Éléments. He... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 117553
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WALRAS, Leon. Note sur la Réfutation de la théorie anglaise du fermage de M. Wicksteed;Lausanne : [1896]
First editions of two scarce papers of the two leading figures of the Lausanne School of Economics. The first paper contains Walras' criticism of Wicksteed's An Essay on the coordination of the laws of distribution, (1894) and occupies pages 1-11 of the Recueil. Pareto's paper, printed on pages 371-87, adds substantial material to his theory of distribution.... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 118574
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WALRAS, Marie Esprit Léon. L'économie politique et la justice,Paris : 1860
First edition of Walras's first book on political economy, an examination and "early refutation on philosophical grounds of the normative economic doctrines of P.-J. Proudhon." (Donald Walker, in The New Palgrave).
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WALRAS, Leon. Études d'économie sociale.Lausanne & Paris : 1896
First edition of one of Walras's major contributions to his economico-social doctrine, based on lectures which he held at the University of Lausanne during the years of 1870 through 1892. "As far as pure theory is concerned, Walras is in my opinion the greatest of all economists" (Schumpeter in: Blaug, Great economists before Keynes, p. 264).
In... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 97679
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WALRAS, Leon. Études d'économie politique appliquée.Lausanne & Paris : 1898
First edition of this collection of articles, originally intended to complete Walras's Élements d'économie politique pure under the title Élements d'économie politique appliquée. The treatise remained unfinished, however, and it was eventually published in the form of incomplete Études. "Three-quarters of the volume are devoted to money and finance;... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 118741
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WALRAS, Leon. Études d'économie sociale.Lausanne & Paris : 1896
First edition of one of Walras's major contributions to his economico-social doctrine, based on lectures which he held at the University of Lausanne during the years of 1870 through 1892. "As far as pure theory is concerned, Walras is in my opinion the greatest of all economists" (Schumpeter in: Blaug, Great economists before Keynes, p. 264).
In... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 114477
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SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Traité d'économie politique,Paris : 1814
Second edition, revised and expanded, of Say's masterpiece, one of the great works of the classical period of economic thought, here a very nice copy in the original wrappers.
First published in 1803, this second edition did not follow until 1814, a delay often cited as due to the hostility of Napoleon. Napoleon had appointed Say a member of... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140905
