ABSTRACT
The pragmatist philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce, had a lifelong interest in economics and economic aspects of scientific methodology. Although he wrote mostly in the natural sciences, mathematics, and philosophy, there are several significant essays with economic themes. Two of his writings were quite mathematical and would have qualified as state of the art contributions in his time. One of his essays created a mathematical-utility model of the economics of greater precision in empirical scientific research (Peirce 1879). Another was a mathematical model of monopoly with an addendum on consumer theory which included a statement of the axiom of transitivity (Peirce [1874] 1982). Besides these two obvious economic essays, there is a third piece which exhibits an extensive amount of economic reasoning. This third piece exceeds seventy pages in published form and contains several pages and a schematic graph on economic aspects of scientific methodology. The long title to this piece will be abbreviated as “The Logic of History” (Peirce [1901] 1958).
