| Edgeworth on Chance, Economic Hazard, and Statistics Contributor(s): Mirowski, Philip J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0847677516 ISBN-13: 9780847677511 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 519.5 |
| LCCN: 93049695 |
| Series: Worldly Philosophy: Studies at the Intersection of Philosoph |
| Physical Information: 470 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Among the early neo-classical economists, Francis Edgeworth is known as one of the most brilliant. Philip Mirowski now shows that Edgeworth is also one of the most misunderstood. Revealing for the first time some of Edgeworth's rarest writings, articles on psychic research and physics, and unpublished correspondence with noted intellectuals, Mirowski uses these texts to explain why Edgeworth abandoned the formalism for which he is remembered and never applied his newly forged statistical tools to neo-classical price theory. Emphasizing his latter turn toward probability theory, the selection of Edgeworth's papers broaden the interpretation of the relationship of the neo-classical program to physics, biometrics, physiological psychology, and other relevant sciences at the turn of the century. Mirowski has created an intellectual biography of this key figure that is unprecedented in scope. |