Socialism sidebar This article lists notable socialist economists and Political economy political economists . Classical economists Ferdinand Lassalle John Stuart Mill Ricardian economists Thomas Hodgskin Charles Hall economist Charles Hall John Francis Bray John Gray 19th century socialist John Gray Utopian socialists Robert Owen Charles Fourier Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint Simon Saint Simon Anarchist economists Mikhail Bakunin Joseph Proudhon Benjamin Tucker Marxian economists Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Rudolf Hilferding Ernest Mandel Rosa Luxemburg Antonie Pannekoek Karl Polanyi J nos Kornai Andrew Kliman Richard D. Wolff Nikolai Kondratiev Marxian Sraffian Piero Sraffa Paul Sweezy Nobuo Okishio Ian Steedman John Roemer David Laibman Cooperative economics Branko Horvat Edvard Kardelj Jaroslav Vanek Robin Hahnel Michael Albert Pat Devine David Schweickart Neoclassical economists Oskar Lange Abba Lerner Alfred Marshall Alec Nove Enrico Barone Fred M. Taylor Andreas G. Papandreou L on Walras David McMullen H.D Dickinson James Yunker Institutional economists Joseph Schumpeter Thorstein Veblen Socialist economic journals http monthlyreview.org Monthly Review Conference of Socialist Economists Science and Society http www.solidarityeconomy.net SolidarityEconomy.net See also Classical economics Socialism Socialist economics Marxian economics Production for use List of Marxian economists List of economists Footnotes Reflist colwidth 30em Category Socialism Category Marxism Category Heterodox economics Category Economists Category Economics lists Category Lists of social scientists Economists Category Lists of economists Socialist economists ... more details
L on Walras in his pioneering 1874 work Elements of Pure Economics ref Walras, Elements of Pure Economics ... to model prices for a whole economy was made by L on Walras . Walras Elements of Pure Economics ... 1953 think Walras was unsuccessful and that the later models in this series are inconsistent. In particular, Walras s model was a long run model in which prices of capital goods are the same whether .... This is inconsistent with the quantities of capital goods being taken as data. But when Walras ... rate of interest varies across capital goods. Walras was the first to lay down a research ... of when equilibria are unique and stable. Walras himself Lesson 7 shows neither Uniqueness ..., e.g. Walras also proposed a dynamic process by which general equilibrium might be reached, that of the Walrasian .... Walras was not able to provide a definitive answer to this question see Unresolved Problems in General ... economists made important advances in the 1930s. Walras proofs of the existence of general equilibrium ... of Brouwer s fixed point theorem from Walras s law. Following Uzawa s theorem, many mathematical ... , Walras law and boundary behavior when prices are near zero are the only real restriction one can ..., Intermediate Microeconomics Chapters 13 and 18. Eatwell, John 1987 . Walras s Theory of Capital , The New ..., 2nd ed. 1946 . Value and Capital . Oxford Clarendon Press. Jaffe, William 1953 . Walras s Theory ... , Oxford University Press, Walras, L on 1877, trans. 1954 . Elements of Pure Economics . ISBN ... more details
Abteilung, Universit tsbibliothek Uppsala, ref except for his correspondence with L on Walras which went into the collection of the Walras scholar William Jaffe in the USA. Major publications Die ... Review of L on Walras, l ments d conomie politique pure , 2e dit. , 1890, Revue d ... more details
Whither Socialism? is a book on economics by Joseph Stiglitz , first published in 1994 by MIT Press. Description Whither Socialism? is based on Stiglitz s Wicksell Lectures, presented at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1990 and presents a summary of the central themes of information economics and serves as a primer on the theory of markets with imperfect information and imperfect competition as well as being a critique of both free market and market socialist approaches see Roemer critique, op. cit. . Stiglitz explains how the neoclassical economics neoclassical , or Walrasian model Walrasian economics refers to the result of the process which has given birth to a formal representation of Adam Smith Smith s notion of the invisible hand , along the lines put forward by L on Walras Walras and encapsulated in the general equilibrium model of Arrow Debreu model Arrow Debreu , which has dominated economic thought over the past half century, may have wrongly encouraged the belief that market socialism could work. Stiglitz proposes an alternative model, based on the information economics established by the Greenwald Stiglitz theorems, that aims to provide greater theoretical insight into the workings of a market economy and offer clearer guidance for the setting of policy in transitional economies. One of the reasons Stiglitz sees for the critical failing in the standard neoclassical economics neoclassical model , on which market socialism was built, is its assumptions concerning information, particularly its failure to consider the problems that arise from lack of perfect information and from the costs of acquiring information. He also identifies problems arising from its assumptions concerning completeness. ref name ZAPIA ZAPIA, Carlo. http www.econ pol.unisi.it pubdocenti HEI99.pdf The economics of information, market socialism and Hayek s legacy. , Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Universit di Siena ref Critique Whither Socialism? has been subject to various cr ... more details
In microeconomics , a consumer s Marshallian demand function named after Alfred Marshall specifies what the consumer would buy in each price and wealth situation, assuming it perfectly solves the utility maximization problem . Marshallian demand is sometimes called Walrasian demand named after L on Walras or uncompensated demand function instead, because the original Marshallian analysis ignored wealth effect s. According to the utility maximization problem, there are L commodities with prices p . The consumer has wealth w , and hence a set of affordable packages math B p, w x langle p, x rangle leq w math , where math langle p, x rangle math is the inner product of the prices and quantity of goods. The consumer has a utility function math u textbf R L rightarrow textbf R math . The consumer s Marshallian demand correspondence is defined to be math x p, w operatorname argmax x in B p, w u x math . If there is a unique utility maximizing package for each price and wealth situation, then it is called the Marshallian demand function . See the utility maximization problem entry for a discussion of this definition. Example If there are two commodities, and the consumer has the utility function math U x 1,x 2 x 1 0.5 x 2 0.5 math Cobb Douglas , he chooses to spend half of its income on each commodity, and its Marshallian demand function is the following math x p 1,p 2,w left frac w 2p 1 , frac w 2p 2 right . math In general, an agent with Cobb Douglas preferences, given by math U x 1,x 2 x 1 a x 2 1 a math , will use a constant share of his income in order to buy each of the two commodities, as follows math x p 1,p 2,w left frac aw p 1 , frac 1 a w p 2 right . math If we are in a more general case, i.e. math U x 1,x 2 x 1 a x 2 b math , we have math x p 1,p 2,w left frac aw a b p 1 , frac bw a b p 2 right . math See also Hicksian demand function Utility maximization problem References cite book authorlink Andreu Mas Colell last Mas Colell first Andreu last2 Whinston first ... more details
Sergiu Hart born 1949 is an Israelis Israeli mathematician and economist and the past President of the Game Theory Society 2008 2010 . He is the Kusiel Vorreuter University Professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Hart was born in Bucharest , Romania and immigrated to Israel in 1963. He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics summa cum laude, 1967 1970 and an M.Sc. in Mathematics summa cum laude, 1970 1971 from Tel Aviv University . His M.Sc. thesis was on the subject of Values of Mixed Games and was supervised by Prof. Robert Aumann , who was also his advisor in his doctoral thesis on Cooperative Game Theory Models of Economic Equilibrium Ph.D. , summa cum laude, 1972 1976 . In 1979 1991 he was at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University, as Professor since 1985. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Department of Operations Research, and Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University 1976 1979 , and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics of Harvard University 1984 1985 and 1990 1991 . Since 1991 he is a member of the Departments of Economics and Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he was the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Rationality 1991 1999 there. Hart was elected Fellow of the Econometric Society 1985 , was a member of the First Council of the Game Theory Society 2000 2005 , President of the Israel Mathematical Union 2005 2006 , Executive Vice President of the Game Theory Society 2006 2008 , and currently serves as the President of the Game Theory Society 2008 2010 . He is a recipient of the Israel Defense Prize 1975 and the Rothschild Prize 1998 , and selected to give the Cowles Lecture at Yale University 2000 and the Walras Bowley Lecture of the Econometric Society 2003 . In 2006 he was elected Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities . External links h ... more details
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Multiple issues cleanup November 2009 unreferenced August 2009 Mergeto asset date November 2009 File Nettogeldverm genUSAengl.PNG thumb 250px Net financial assets of sectors of USA economy, 1945 2009 File VerbindlichkeitenSektorenUSAengl.PNG thumb 250px Liabilites of sectors of USA economy, 1945 2009, based on flow of funds statistics of the Federal Reserve System . File Geldverrm genUSAengl.PNG thumb 250px Financial assets of sectors of USA economy, 1945 2009, based on flow of funds statistics of the Federal Reserve System . An asset in economic theory is an output good which can only be partially consumed like a portable music player or input as a factor of production like a concrete mixer cement mixer which can only be partially used up in production. The necessary quality for an asset is that value remain after the period of analysis so it can be used as a store of value . As such, financial instruments like corporate bonds and common stocks are assets because they store value for the next period. If the good or factor is used up before the next period, there would be nothing upon which to place a value. attempt to guess at meaning of incomprehensible original As a result of this definition, assets only have positive futures market futures prices. This is analogous to the distinction between consumer durables and non durables. Durables last more than one year. A classic durable is an automobile. A classic non durable is an apple, which is eaten and lasts less than one year. Assets are that category of output which economic theory places prices upon. In a simple Walras ian equilibrium model, there is but a single period and all items have prices. In a multi period equilibrium model, while all items have prices in the current period. Only assets can survive into the next period and thus only assets can store value and as a result, only assets have a price today for delivery tomorrow. Items which depreciate 100 by tomorrow have no price for delivery tomorrow becaus ... more details
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Augustin Cournot Augustin Cournot and L on Walras built the tools of the discipline axiomatically ... and ordinal utility are minor for most applications. ref Cournot, Walras and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth ... url http books.google.com ?id 6qgHgAACAAJ ref L on Walras While Cournot provided a solution for what would later be called partial equilibrium, L on Walras attempted to formalize discussion of the economy ... of every economic actor would be considered on both the production and consumption side. Walras ... many equations, but Walras s attempts produced two famous results in economics. The first is Walras law and the second is the principle of Walrasian auction t tonnement . Walras method was considered ... Theory of Political Economy Review of L on Walras, l ments d conomie politique pure journal Nature ... het texts edgeworth edgewalras89.pdf format PDF accessdate 2008 08 21 ref Walras law ... notation. Walras assumed that in equilibrium, all money would be spent on all goods every good ... of goods. Starting from this assumption, Walras could then show that if there were n markets ..., money can enter or exit the second market, so it must be in a state of equilibrium as well. Walras ... toward was meant to serve as the practical expression of Walrasian general equilibrium. Walras abstracted ... title Walras Law and Macroeconomics last Dixon first Robert work Walras Law Guide publisher ... goods until a price is agreed upon for all goods. While the process appears dynamic, Walras ... rdixon walproof.html title A Formal Proof of Walras Law last Dixon first Robert work Walras ... hand hypothesis. ref cite book author Jolink, Albert chapter What Went Wrong with Walras? title From Walras to Pareto editor Backhaus, Juergen G. Maks, J.A. Hans publisher Springer year 2006 series The European ... more details
About the economic model the computer interface Input output In economics , an input output model is a quantitative economic technique that represents the interdependencies between different branches of the national economy or between branches of different, even competing economies. ref name ref Thijs Ten Raa, http books.google.bg books?id nu0FAvNiFhYC&printsec frontcover v onepage&q&f false Input output economics theory and applications featuring Asian economies , World Scientific, 2009 ref Wassily Leontief 1906 1999 developed this type of analysis and took the Nobel Prize in Economics for his development of this model. ref name ref Earlier Francois Quesnay developed a cruder version of this technique called Tableau conomique . And, in essence, L on Walras s work Elements of Pure Economics on general equilibrium theory is both a forerunner and generalization of Leontief s seminal concept. Leontief s main contribution was that he was able to simplify Walras s piece so that it could be implemented empirically. The International Input Output Association is dedicated to advancing knowledge in the field of input output study, which includes improvements in basic data, theoretical insights and modelling, and applications, both traditional and novel, of input output techniques. Understanding the input output model An understanding of the economy as consisting of linked sectors goes back to the French economist Fran ois Quesnay , but was developed in full generality by L on Walras in 1874. ref Elements of pure economics, L. Walras ref Leontif s contribution was to state the model in such a way as to make computation feasible. He used a matrix mathematics matrix representation of a nation s or a region s economy. His model depicts inter industry relations of an economy. It shows how the output of one industry is an input to each other industry. Leontief put forward the display of this information in the form of a matrix. A given input is typically enumerated in the column ... more details
In macroeconomics , the classical dichotomy refers to an idea attributed to classical economics classical and pre Keynesian economics that Real versus nominal value economics real and nominal variables can be analyzed separately. To be precise, an economy exhibits the classical dichotomy if real variables such as output and real interest rate s can be completely analyzed without considering what is happening to their nominal counterparts, the money value of output and the interest rate. In particular, this means that real GDP and other real variables can be determined without knowing the level of the nominal money supply or the rate of inflation . An economy exhibits the classical dichotomy if money is neutrality of money neutral , affecting only the price level, not real variables. The classical dichotomy was integral to the thinking of some pre Keynesian economists Veil of money money as a veil as a long run proposition and is found today in new classical economics new classical theories of macroeconomics. Keynesian economics Keynesians and Monetarism monetarists reject the classical dichotomy, because they argue that prices are sticky economics sticky . That is, they think prices fail to adjust in the Long run and short run short run , so that an increase in the money supply raises aggregate demand and thus alters real macroeconomic variables. Post Keynesians reject the classic dichotomy as well, for different reasons, emphasizing the role of banks in money creation creating money , as in monetary circuit theory . Controversy Don Patinkin 1954 challenged the classical dichotomy as being inconsistent, with the introduction of the real balance effect of changes in the nominal money supply . The early classical writers postulated that money is inherently equivalent in value to that quantity of real goods which it can purchase. Therefore, in Walras ian terms, a monetary expansion would raise prices by an equivalent amount, with no real effects on employment or output ... more details
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verify date March 2011 Infobox scientist name Samuel Hollander image filename only image size alt caption birth date Birth date and age 1937 4 6 birth place London, England death date Death date and age YYYY MM DD YYYY MM DD death date then birth date death place resting place resting place coordinates Coord LAT LONG type landmark display inline,title residence citizenship nationality fields Economics workplaces University of Toronto br Ben Gurion University of the Negev alma mater London School of Economics br Princeton University thesis title thesis url thesis year doctoral advisor academic advisors doctoral students notable students known for author abbrev bot author abbrev zoo influences influenced awards Order of Canada signature filename only signature alt website URL www.example.com footnotes spouse Samuel Hollander , Post nominals country CAN OC FRSC born April 6, 1937 is a England British Canada Canadian Israel i economist . Born in London , he received a B.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics in 1959. In 1961 he received an AM and a Ph.D. in 1963 from Princeton University . He started with the University of Toronto becoming an Assistant Professor 1963 1966 , Associate Professor 1966 1970 , Professor 1970 1984 , University Professor 1984 1998 , and upon his retirement in 1998, University Professor Emeritus. Since 2000 he is a Professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev . He became a citizen of Canada in 1967 and of Israel in 2000. Samuel Hollander is one of the most influential and controversial living authors on History of Economic Thought , especially on classical economics . His monumental studies of Adam Smith , David Ricardo , Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill have provoked some sharp reactions. Especially his new view of David Ricardo as a direct predecessor of later neo classical economics neo classical economists such as Alfred Marshall Marshall and Walras has triggered heated debates. Apart from many critics he has also enjoye ... more details
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Enrico Barone December 22, 1859, Naples May 14, 1924, Rome was a soldier , military historian , and economist . Barone studied the classics and mathematics before becoming an army officer. He taught military history for eight years from 1894 at the Officers Training School. There he wrote a series of influential historical military works. In these he employed a method of successive approximations to which his study in economics had introduced him. In 1902, he became head of the historical office of the General Staff. He resigned his commission in 1906. From 1894 he collaborated with Maffeo Pantaleoni and Vilfredo Pareto on the Giornale degli Economisti . ref F. Caff 1987 , p. 195. ref Barone s accomplishments as an economist included these. He was the first to state conditions for which a perfect competition competitive market could be Pareto efficient . ref Nordhaus 1992 , p. 845. ref He expanded on Pareto efficiency , deducing that not all losers could be compensated for deviations from conditions of competitive equilibrium. He introduced variable factor proportions into neoclassical economics , contributing to the marginal productiviy theory of Factor income factor income distribution economics Neoclassical distribution theory distribution . He extended conditions of general equilibrium in L on Walras Walrasian theory , suggesting the feasibility of trial and error trial and error movement to market equilibrium . He pioneered the economic theory of Index economics index numbers . All this was without use of utility or even indifference curve s. ref Samuelson 1947 , pp. 213 18. ref Barone has been described as a founder of the pure theory of a socialist economy. ref Caff 1987 , p. 195. ref In 1908, he presented a mathematical model for a socialist economy under which certain relations, later identified with shadow price s, must be satisfied for maximum collective welfare. The latter corresponds to least cost price of production from Pareto efficiency reached in ... more details
BLP sources date January 2010 Infobox economist name Edmond Malinvaud school tradition Walrasian economics color indigo image Debreu, Balasko, Malinvaud.jpeg image size caption Edmond Malinvaud right , next to Yves Balasko center and G rard Debreu , in 1977. birth date Birth date and age 1923 04 25 df y birth place Limoges death date death place nationality flag France institution Coll ge de France field Macroeconomics alma mater Ecole Polytechnique influences L on Walras br Maurice Allais opposed influenced Yves Balasko br Jacques Dr ze contributions awards signature file name only repec prefix repec id Edmond Malinvaud born on 25 April 1923 in Limoges is a French economist. He was the first president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences . Trained at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l Administration Economique cole Nationale de la Statistique et de l Administration conomique ENSAE in Paris, Malinvaud was, like G rard Debreu , a student of Maurice Allais . In 1950, Malinvaud left Allais to join the Cowles Commission in the United States. At Cowles, Malinvaud produced work in many directions. His famous article, Capital Accumulation and the Efficient Allocation of Resources 1953 , provided an intertemporal theory of capital for general equilibrium theory and introduced the concept of dynamic efficiency. He became director of the ENSAE 1962 1966 , director of the forecast department of French Treasury 1972 1974 , director of the INSEE 1974 1987 and Professor at the Coll ge de France 1988 1993 . He also worked on uncertainty theory, notably the theory of first order certainty equivalence 1969 and the relationship between individual risks and social risks 1972, 1973 . His 1971 microeconomics textbook and his econometrics textbook, Statistical Methods in Econometrics , have since become classics. Malinvaud s main contribution to macroeconomics is represented in his slim 1977 book, Theory of Unemployment Reconsidered whi ... more details
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