Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - A. A. Cournot

Polozapomenuté postavy ekonomického myšlení - A. A. Cournot

Pavel Sirůček

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2015, vol. 2015, issue 3, 67-75

Abstract: Cournot was a French mathematician, philosopher and economist, said to be one of the most important predecessors of neoclassical economic theory. He belongs among the pioneers in econometrics and mathematical economics. He is also highlighted for creation of market prices, the demand function and the basis for marginalist firm theory. He was unacknowledged in his lifetime.

Keywords: A. A. Cournot; predecessors of neoclassical economics; microeconomics; mathematical economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B16 B41 C02 D00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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