Finding Equilibrium : : Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit / / Till Düppe, E. Roy Weintraub.

Finding Equilibrium explores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma-that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy for which the theorem could be proved was mapped out in 1954 by Kenn...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 11 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chronology
  • Part I. People
  • Chapter 1. Arrow's Ambitions
  • Chapter 2. McKenzie's Frustrations
  • Chapter 3. Debreu's Silence
  • Part II. Context
  • Chapter 4. Sites
  • Chapter 5. Community
  • Part III . Credit
  • Chapter 6. Three Proofs
  • Chapter 7. Aftermath
  • Chapter 8. The Proofs Become History
  • Conclusion
  • Coda
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects