Edgeworth on Chance, Economic Hazard, and StatisticsRowman & Littlefield, 1994 - 462 ページ Among the early neo-classical economists, Francis Edgeworth is known as one of the most brilliant. Philip Mirowski now shows that Edgeworth is also one of the most misunderstood. Revealing for the first time some of Edgeworth's rarest writings, articles on psychic research and physics, and unpublished correspondence with noted intellectuals, Mirowski uses these texts to explain why Edgeworth abandoned the formalism for which he is remembered and never applied his newly forged statistical tools to neo-classical price theory. Emphasizing his latter turn toward probability theory, the selection of Edgeworth's papers broaden the interpretation of the relationship of the neo-classical program to physics, biometrics, physiological psychology, and other relevant sciences at the turn of the century. Mirowski has created an intellectual biography of this key figure that is unprecedented in scope. |
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Marshalling the Unruly Atoms Understanding Edgeworths Career | 1 |
or The Method of Measuring Probability and Utility | 81 |
APPENDIX I On the Method of Least Squares | 115 |
1882 Mr Leslie Stephen on Utilitarianism | 125 |
1883d On the Method of Ascertaining a Change in the Value of Gold | 127 |
1883b The Method of Least Squares | 135 |
1883c The Physical Basis of Probability | 147 |
1884a The Philosophy of Chance | 149 |
1913a On the Use of the Theory of Probabilities in Statistics Relating to Society | 291 |
1913b A Variant Proof of the Distribution of Velocities in a Molecular Chaos | 309 |
1921a Molecular Statistics | 313 |
1922c The Philosophy of Chance | 327 |
1925a The Element of Probability in IndexNumbers Introduction | 351 |
BOOK REVIEWS | 371 |
1889b Natural Inheritance | 375 |
1889i Elements d Economic Politique Pure | 378 |
1884f The Rationale of Exchange | 161 |
1884c A Priori Probabilities | 165 |
Chance and Law | 173 |
The Calculus of Probabilities Applied to Psychical Research I | 181 |
1887c The Law of Error | 191 |
The Law of Error | 193 |
1887i The Empirical Proof of the Law of Error | 195 |
1888b The Mathematical Theory of Banking | 199 |
1888c New Methods of Measuring Variation in General Prices | 211 |
1893d Statistical Correlation between Social Phenomena | 227 |
1896c Supplementary Notes on Statistics | 231 |
1908a On the Probable Errors of FrequencyConstants | 237 |
Part I Probability and Expectation Section I First Principles | 263 |
1893e Philosophy and Political Economy in some of their Historical Relations | 381 |
1909c Principii di Statistica Metodologica | 386 |
An Essay in Statistical Economics | 390 |
1912a A Reply to Professor Edgeworths Review of Professor H L Moores Law of Wages | 394 |
1917b Scope and Method of Statistics | 402 |
1920c The Change in the Distribution of the National Income 18801913 | 408 |
1922d A Treatise on Probability | 410 |
1924b Die Statistischen Forschungsmethoden | 416 |
1925c A Mathematical Theory of Evolution based on the Conclusions of Dr J C Wills | 420 |
Correspondence between Francis Ysidro Edgeworth and Edwin Bidwell Wilson | 431 |
An Incomplete Bibliography of the Writings of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth | 439 |
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