Publication

Leon Walras's Mathematical Economics and the Mechanical Analogies

1989
Jan Van Daal

1989, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 11(1), pp.25-32

Abstract

In April 1909 Léon Walras (1834–1910) presented his last lecture before the Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles at Lausanne. The subject dealt with in this lecture was the analogy between the mathematics used in economics and that employed in mechanics, it is reformulated in what turned out to be one of Walras's last publications, entitled ‘Economique et Mécanique.’