EDGEWORTH (Francis Ysidro). &
NEWMAN (Peter)., Editor.
F.Y. Edgeworth: Mathematical Psychics and Further Papers on Political Economy.
EDGEWORTH (Francis Ysidro). &
NEWMAN (Peter)., Editor.
F.Y. Edgeworth: Mathematical Psychics and Further Papers on Political Economy.
“This volume commences with two youthful monographs, Mathematical Psychics (1881), Edgeworth’s best-known work, and New and Old Methods of Ethics (1879), which is reprinted for the first time. Both are complemented by extensive editorial notes. Edgeworth’s mature views, however, are to be found in his lectures, journal articles and reviews. He himself edited the three volumes of his Papers Relating to Political Economy in 1925, a project which led to some surprising omissions. This volume includes the most significant articles not previously reprinted-among them his seminal work on the theory of banking and the application of mathematical theory to political economy, his reviews of Walras and Marshall, his lectures On the Relations of Political Economy to War (1915) and Equal Pay to Men and Women for Equal Work (1922), together with his most important contributions to Palgrave’s Dictionary. In his introduction Peter Newman, the leading authority on the subject, assesses Edgeworth’s life and work. He had become intrigued by the originality of Edgeworth’s writings in the early 1860s, when researching his Theory of Exchange (1965). His wide-ranging interests enabled him to appreciate the variety and complexity of Edgeworth’s ideas, and he planned as his last work this collection of mono-graphs, essays, journal articles and reviews, most of them reprinted here for the first time. The volume concludes with the first complete bibliography of Edgeworth’s writings, compiled by Alberto Baccin” (dust jacket blurb).
