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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Main Author: Guido Erreygers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Œconomia 2015-06-01
Series:Œconomia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/1409