Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149703 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CHOPE Working Paper No. 2013-12
Publisher: 
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE), Durham, NC
Abstract: 
Although Cournot's mathematical economics was generally neglected until the mid- 1870s, he was taken up and carefully studied by the Scientific Club of Cambridge, Massachusetts even before his "discovery" by Walras and Jevons. The episode is reconstructed from fragmentary manuscripts of the pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce, a sophisticated mathematician. Peirce provides a subtle interpretation and anticipates Bertrand's criticisms.
Subjects: 
Charles S. Peirce
A.C. Cournot
mathematical economics
monopoly
duopoly
oligopoly
perfect competition
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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