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The Uses of Mathematical and Legal Ideas in Economic Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

J. Shield Nicholson
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Commercial and Political Economy and Mercantile Law in the University of Edinburgh
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1909

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page 1 note 1 “On the Application of Mathematics to Political Economy,” by Professor Edgeworth, , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, December 1889. See also his article on Cournot in Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy.Google Scholar

page 2 note 1 The first part of the book was published in 1826, the second in 1850, and the third in 1863. A critical account of the theory, natural wages is given by Professor Moore in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. ix. (1895), pp. 291–303 and pp. 388–408.

page 2 note 2 Cournot's work has been translated into English (1897) by N. T. Bacon, under the title Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth, with an Introduction and Bibliography of Mathematical Economics by Irving Fisher.

page 6 note 1 Cf. Marshall, , Principles, Bk. v. chap, xiii.Google Scholar, and Appendix H.

page 9 note 1 See “Paradoxes of Competition,” by Moore, H. L., Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1906.Google Scholar

page 9 note 2 Cf. Principles and Methods of Industrial Peace, by A. C. Pigou, Appendices A and B.

page 14 note 1 Cf. The Court of Pie-Powder,” by Cross, C., Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1906.Google Scholar

page 15 note 1 [In this connection special interest attaches to the following paragraph in the Report of the Meeting, on 16th December 1907, of the Edinburgh University Court: “The Court, on the recommendation of the Senatus, resolved to institute a Lectureship in Statistics and Mathematical Economics; the course of instruction to be given during the summer session 1909 by Mr. George Carse, Lecturer in Natural Philosophy. The class fee was fixed at £2, 2s.”—ED.]