Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit

by E. Roy Weintraub and Till Düppe

The remarkable story and personalities behind one of the most important theories in modern economics

Finding Equilibrium explores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma--that a competitive market economy may possess a set of equilibrium prices. The model economy for which the theorem could be proved was mapped out in 1954 by Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691156646
• ISBN13: 9780691156644
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"