This is a welcome biography of Edgeworth. Peter Groenewegen, Economic History Review Barbè s book is bound to become the bibliographical reference on Edgeworth

Among the early neo-classical economists, Francis Edgeworth is known as one of the most brilliant. Mirowski has created an intellectual biography of this key fi

A comparison of two approaches to ethics: introspection and physical science. Edgeworth uses Sidgwick's Methods of ethics as an example of the former, and Barra

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