Mechanics Meets Economics, Once Again: The “Rational Economics” Project of the Guillaume Brothers
In the 1930s the Swiss brothers Édouard and Georges Guillaume launched an ambitious attempt to found a science of “rational economics” by analogy with the science of rational mechanics. Their models were intensively discussed by the X-Crise group in Paris, and exerted an influence on the early Frenc...
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Language: | English |
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Association Œconomia
2015-06-01
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Series: | Œconomia |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/1409 |