• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth : a portrait with family and friends
  • Contributor: Barbé i Duran, Lluís [Author]; Black, Mary C. [Other]
  • Corporation: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Published: Cheltenham, U.K; Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, 2010
  • Published in: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 291 p); ill., geneal. tables, ports
  • Language: English
  • Language of the original: Catalan
  • DOI: 10.4337/9781849803229
  • ISBN: 9781849803229
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  • Keywords: Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index
    Translated from the Catalan
  • Description: Lluís Barbé has recreated the background and life of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth through a fascinating exercise of reconstruction that succeeds in shaping the first detailed biography ever published of this major economist and statistician. Originating from previously unexplored letters and documents kept in archives and registers of Ireland, England and Catalonia, Edgeworth's relationships with his academic fellows - including Sully, Jevons, Marshall, Galton, Pearson, Walras, Pantaleoni, I. Fisher, Pareto, Keynes - are thoroughly depicted. Stemming from undiscovered primary sources, this book also reveals a close insight into the academic world of the period 1875-1925 in the fields of economics and statistics

    1. Edgeworth's background -- 2. The making of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth -- 3. Professor F.Y. Edgeworth -- 4. The Esquire of Edgeworthstown