AUSPITZ, Rudolf, and Richard LIEBEN. Recherches sur la théorie du prix … Traduit de l’allemand par Louis Suret. Texte [– Album]. Paris, M. Giard & É. Brière, 1914.
Two vols, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1] blank, 378, [1] imprint, [1] advertisement; [iv] + 84 figures on 49 plates; edges browned, else a clean copy, uncut and partly unopened in the original printed wrappers, ownership stamp to front covers and a little soiled, spines defective in places.
First edition in French of the important work by Auspitz and Lieben, originally published in German in 1889, ‘which assured its authors of a place among the eminent mathematical economists. It is essentially an exhaustive partial-equilibrium analysis of price in terms of an ingenious geometrical apparatus … Auspitz and Lieben, though highly regarded by men like Edgeworth, Pareto and Fisher, never received the credit they deserved. In their local environment, in view of the Austrian School’s intolerance for mathematics, they were academic outcasts’ (The New Palgrave I, 144–5).
£350
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