Contents:
Preface
About the Series: Professor Robert Solow
The Complete Works of Antoine Augustin Cournot
Chronological Biography of Antoine Augustin Cournot
Introduction
Thierry Martin and Jean-Philippe Touffut
1. Cournot as Economist: 200 Years of Relevance
Jean Magnan de Bornier
2. Cournot’s Probabilistic Epistemology
Thierry Martin
3. The Functions of Economic Models
Bernard Walliser
4. From Cournot’s Principle to Market Efficiency
Glenn Shafer
5. War and Peace
Robert J. Aumann
6. Cournot and the Social Income
Robert M. Solow
7. Comparing the Incomparable: The Sociology of Statistics
Alain Desrosières
Index
Edited by Jean-Philippe Touffut, Director, Cournot Centre, Paris, France
'. . . readers, especially those with a methodological orientation,
will find in this book useful material of a kind not so frequently
available in more traditional HET books and journals.'
*Nicola Giocoli, Storia del Pensiero Economico*
'Augustin Cournot: Modelling Economics is not a biography, but
rather a reflection on those ideas of Cournot that persist today
and what we can still learn from this great thinker. One cannot
help but wonder at the wide range of accomplishments detailed in
this book, but the discussion of Cournot's missteps is an
unexpected highlight. . . this book should appeal to those who
would like to learn more about Cournot as well as the various
settings in which his thoughts have been embraced or rejected.'
*Lauren E. Feiler, Journal of Economic Literature*
'This rich and fascinating collection of essays helps enormously to
establish the reputation of Augustin Cournot as a diverse and
powerful thinker, whose numerous contributions range far beyond his
widely acknowledged model of oligopoly. Cournot is revealed not
merely as a mathematician, but one who was engaged in philosophical
debates concerning epistemology and the nature of science. Anyone
with the preconception that the development of modern economics was
confined to the Anglophone world - from Smith through Marshall to
the Nobel Laureates of today - will be amazed by the details of
Cournot's contribution revealed here.'
*Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK*
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