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Economics and Other Branches – In the Shade of the Oak Tree

ABSTRACT

Pascal Bridel held the Chair of Economics at the University of Lausanne and is founder of the Centre Walras-Pareto. This major essay collection reflects his wide range of interests and his seminal contributions to economic theory. It is the work of more than thirty of the most senior scholars of economics working today.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction: Economics and Other Branches – in the Shade of the Oak Tree: Essays in Honour of Pascal Bridel

part I|53 pages

Léon Walras's Economic Thought

chapter 1|16 pages

Walras Between Holism and Individualism

chapter 2|7 pages

The Case Against Market Perfection: The Two Bertrands' Objections are One

chapter 3|14 pages

Walras, Marx and the Philosophy of History

chapter 4|15 pages

Sraffa Without Walras

part II|110 pages

The Spreading of Thought

part II1|32 pages

Léon Walras's Reception

chapter 5|18 pages

Walras in the Age of Marshall: An Analysis of English-Language Journals, 1890–1939

chapter 6|14 pages

The English Translation of Léon walras's Études D'économie Sociale

part II2|22 pages

The Lausanne School

chapter 7|11 pages

Pareto: A Possible Forerunner of the Studies on Social Complexity

chapter 8|10 pages

Samsonoff on Rent Theory: or, Yet Another Member of the Lausanne School?

part II3|33 pages

French Matters

chapter 9|12 pages

Administration and Œconomic Government in Quesnay's Political Economy

chapter 10|12 pages

Constant as a Reader of Sismondi

chapter 11|9 pages

French Liberal Economists and the ‘Labour Question' Before and During the Revolution of 1848

part II4|22 pages

Cambridge UK

chapter 12|11 pages

Whatever Happened to the Keynesian Multiplier?

chapter 13|10 pages

Sundry Observations and New Findings on the Anglo-Italian Tradition of Economic Thought

part III|44 pages

Monetary Theory

chapter 14|11 pages

Financial Stability: The Role of Central Banks

chapter 15|14 pages

The Fisher Relation in the Great Depression and the Great Recession

chapter 16|8 pages

Endogenous Money in an Elementary Search Model: Intrinsic Properties Versus Bootstrap 1

chapter 17|10 pages

Digression on the Relations Between Anthropology and Economics on the Topic of ‘Primitive' Currencies: A Page in the History of Thought

part IV|94 pages

Methodology

chapter 18|43 pages

The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics in Adam Smith

chapter 19|9 pages

Why do Economists and Philosophers Resort to the History of their Discipline?

chapter 20|14 pages

Interest-Based Prediction and Mutual Expectations: Reflections on the Normative Value of Hobbesian Methodology

chapter 21|18 pages

Tempests of the Business World: Weather Metaphors for Crises in the Nineteenth Century

chapter 22|8 pages

Samuelson and the Non-Substitution Theorem: Some Methodological Remarks

part V|80 pages

Economics and Humanities

part V-1|45 pages

Economics and Social Sciences

chapter 23|11 pages

Homo Œconomicus and Homo Sociologicus as Contrasted Ideal-Types

chapter 24|14 pages

Social Sciences in Front of ‘Broad Questions'

chapter 25|19 pages

Sociology: An Infirm Science?

part V-2|34 pages

Some Insights from Visual Arts

chapter 26|19 pages

Imaginative Intelligence: Cognition in the Visual Arts Versus Rationality in Economics

chapter 27|14 pages

Realism and Reality: The Arguments of Cinema

part VI|63 pages

Economics and Civil Society

chapter 28|16 pages

A Reflection on the Social Utility of Modern Macroeconomics

chapter 29|11 pages

Failing to Control: Accountability in Historical Perspective

chapter 30|9 pages

Does Transparency Engender the Confidence of the Governed? A Contribution to Political Thought

chapter 31|13 pages

The Enterprise Face to the Environmental Challenge: Straddling the Fence Between Social Responsibility and Penal Responsibility

chapter 32|11 pages

Law as a System of Normative Production: Law and Semiotics