Beschreibung:
Walras’s recognition as a great economist is only due to one of his books : “Eléments d’économie pure” in which he demonstrates the interdépendance of all the economic variables, and, under some “idéales” assumptions, a general equilibrium. Walras would be in despair to be known only for this part of his work. He probably thought his last two books were more important : “Etudes d’économie appliquée” and “Etudes d’économie sociale” In those Walras is not the apologist of the liberal economic order wich he is reputed to be. He is, first, a socialist, a true and vehement socialist. Secondly an astonishing precursor of the other human sciences, specially the sociology. But Walras’s “scientific moral” and his “scientific spiritualism” were very different, of course, than our modem social sciences.
La découverte tardive de Walras a porté uniquement sur les Eléments d’économie pure, démonstration de l’interdépendance de toutes les variables de la vie économique, et, sous certaines hypothèses reconnues par lui “idéales”, démonstration d’un