EDGEWORTH, FRANCIS YSIDRO

əsēˈdrōˌ, 1845–1926, British economist, grad. Trinity College, Dublin. He was professor of political economy at Oxford and first editor (1891–1926) of the Economist. His special contribution to economics was the application of mathematical measurements, as described in Mathematical Psychics (1881). He developed the indifference and contract curves, which are part of statistical method. Much of his writing was collected in Papers Relating to Political Economy (3 vol., 1925).

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The History of Economic Thought: A Reader
Book by Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Economics--History
...Bowley, A.L. (1934) Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Econometrica 2: 113...Keynes, J.M. (1951) Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, 1845-1926, in J.M...Newman, Peter (1987) Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, in John Eatwell, Murray...
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Dictionary of National Biography: [Fourth Supplement
Book by J. R. H. Weaver; Oxford University Press, 1937
Subjects: Great Britain--Biography
...information. S. V. FITZGERALD. EDGEWORTH, FRANCIS YSIDRO originally YSIDRP FRANCIS...Edgeworth q.v. and of Anna Edgeworth, who married Thomas Beddoeg, q.v. . Francis Ysidro Edgeworth thus had an aunt Maria born...
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A History of Economic Thought: The Lse Lectures
Book by Lionel Robbins, Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels; Princeton University Press, 1998
Subjects: Economics--History
...Nicolas Prevost, 1738. Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro. Mathematical Psychics...School of Economics, 1932. Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro. Review of Natural Value...Burt Franklin, 1925. Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro. The Laws of Increasing...
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Rationality, Allocation, and Reproduction
Book by Vivian Walsh; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Economics, Rationalism
...236 -8, 252 -4, 264 , 267 , 269 , 271 Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, 23 -4, 33 , 34 , 148 , 155 -6, 159...189 , 191 , 195 , 202 -3, 209 -10 Edgeworth box, 141 -59, 185 , 203 Edgeworth models or Edgeworth economies , 139 -71...
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Routledge Dictionary of Economics
Book by Donald Rutherford; Routledge, 1995
Subjects: Economics--Dictionaries
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro, 1845-1926 (030) Irish-born...1891 to 1926. Creedy, J. (1986) Edgeworth and the Development of Neoclassical Economics , Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Edgeworth, F.W. Collected Papers . OBrien...
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The Early History of the Box Diagram
Journal article by Thomas M. Humphrey; Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Vol. 82, 1996
Subjects: Arrow, Kenneth Joseph, Diagrams, Economic models, Economic theory, Economists, Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro (1845-1926), History, Samuelson, Paul A, United States
...no progenitor, not even to Francis Edgeworth or Arthur Bowley. The result...neoclassical and modern economics. Francis Edgeworth, Vilfredo Pareto, A.W...diagrams development. 1. FRANCIS Y. EDGEWORTH The box diagram makes its first...
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Contract or War? on the Consequences of a Broader View of Self-Interest in Economics [*
Journal article by Michelle R. Garfinkel, Stergios Skaperdas; Vol. 44, 2000
Subjects: Economics--Moral and ethical aspects, Self-interest--Economic aspects, War--Psychological aspects
...war; the second, contract. Edgeworth (1881), pp. 16, 17; emphasis...this bubble. If, following Edgeworth, we were to consider the first...November 1997. 1203-50. Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro. Mathematical Psychics (London...
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Morality, Maximization, and Economic Behavior
Journal article by Alan G. Isaac; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 63, 1997
Subjects: Consumer behavior--Moral and ethical aspects, Ethics--Economic aspects, Neoclassical economics--Models
...Joseph. Fifteen Sermons upon Human Nature. Charlottesville, Virginia: Ibis Publishing, 1987(1726). 8. Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro. Mathematical Psychics. London: Kegan Paul, 1881. 9. Etzioni, Amitai, "The Case for a Multiple Utility...
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When Geometry Emerged: Some Neglected Early Contributions to Offer-curve Analysis
Journal article by Thomas M. Humphrey; Economic Quarterly - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Vol. 81, 1995
Subjects: Economic theory, Free trade, Mathematical analysis, Tariffs, United States
...Torrens, Alfred Marshall, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, and Abba Lerner all contributed...originality for his invention. 4. FRANCIS YSIDRO EDGEWORTH As sophisticated as they...1965), pp. 685-760. Edgeworth, Francis Y. "On the Application...
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Moral Sense and Material Interests
Journal article by Herbert Gintis; Social Research, Vol. 73, 2006
Subjects: Economic theory--Research, Economics--Research, Human nature--Research, Interpersonal relations--Research
...highly influential Mathematical Psychics (1881), Francis Ysidro Edgeworth proclaimed that "the first principle of economics...of Economic Perspectives 2 (1988): 187-197. Edgeworth, F. Y. Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the...
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Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EDGEWORTH, FRANCIS YSIDRO se dro , 1845 1926, British economist, grad. Trinity College, Dublin. He was professor of political economy at Oxford and...


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