Antoine Augustin Cournot: The Pioneer of Modern Economic Ideas

Md. Mobarak Hossain and Md Niaz Murshed Chowdhury

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Abstract: Augustin Cournot, an unsung pioneer of many economic ideas during his time, who has written the book, Theory of Wealth, where he developed many economic ideas including the oligopoly theory, doupoly model, the ideas of function and probability into economic analysis. This paper discusses the way he thought the economics should be analyzed as well as his life cycle.

Keywords: Doupoly; oligopoly; game theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B30 B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-12-24
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