Wible, JRHoover, KD2016-12-062015-11-121042-7716https://hdl.handle.net/10161/13177© The History of Economics Society 2015.Although Cournot's mathematical economics was generally neglected until the mid-1870s, he was taken up and carefully studied by the Scientific Club of Cambridge, Massachusetts, even before his discovery by Walras and Jevons. The episode is reconstructed from fragmentary manuscripts of the pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce, a sophisticated mathematician. Peirce provides a subtle interpretation and anticipates Bertrand's criticisms.Journal article1469-9656