William Whewell (1794-1866), Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), Charles Babbage (1792-1871) / edited by Mark Blaug.

Contributor Blaug, Mark.

Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Edward Elgar Pub., c1991.

Descriptionx, 273 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:The currency-banking controversy / Marion R. Daugherty. - The classical view of the economic problem / Hla Myint. - The Birmingham economists, 1815-1850 / S.G. Checkland. - What was the labor theory of value? / Donald F. Gordon. - The development of the theory of colonization in English classical political economy / Edward R. Kittrell. - A note on the history of perfect competition / Paul J. McNulty. - The first mathematical Ricardian model James L. Cochrane. - Monopoly price discrimination in 1850: Dionysius Lardner / Donald L. Hooks. - William Whewell's mathematical statements of price flexibility, demand elasticity and the Giffen paradox / James P. Henderson. - William Whewell's mathematical statements; and rejoinder / James L. Cochrane. - Classical economics and its moral critics / William D. Grampp. - William Whewell and early mathematical economics / Salim Rashid. - Thoughts of some British economists on early limited liability and corporate legislation / Christine E. Amsler, Robin L. Bartlett, and Craig J. Bolton. - Political economy and geology in the early 19th century: similarities and contrasts / Salim Rashid. - W. Whewell's contribution to economic analysis: the first mathematical formulation of fixed capital in Ricardo's system / Giuliana Campanelli. - The Whewell group of mathematical economists / James P. Henderson. - The Scottish political economy tradition / Sheila C. Dow.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

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