MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS COMES to AMERICA: CHARLES S. PEIRCE'S ENGAGEMENT with COURNOT'S
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© 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.
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(2015). MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS COMES to AMERICA: CHARLES S. PEIRCE'S ENGAGEMENT with COURNOT'S. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 37(4). pp. 511-536. 10.1017/S1053837215000450. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/13177.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Kevin Douglas Hoover
Professor of Economics
Professor Hoover's research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics,
the history of economics, and the philosophy and methodology of empirical economics.
His recent work in economics has focused on the application of causal search methodologies
for structural vector autoregression, the history of microfoundational programs in
macroeconomics, and Roy Harrod's early work on dynamic macroeconomics. In philosophy,
he has concentrated on issues related to causality, especially in economi
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