Pascal Bridel held the Chair of Economics at the University of Lausanne and is founder of the Centre Walras-Pareto as well as a key member of the executive board of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET). This major essay collection reflects his wide range of interests and his seminal contributions to economic theory. It is the work of more than thirty of the most senior scholars of economics working today. This volume will be a standard reference work for all those working in the areas of economics, political sciences, sociology and philosophy.
Introduction - Roberto Baranzini and François Allisson
Pascal Bridel's Bibliography (up to 2013)
Part I: Léon Walrass Economic Thought
1 Walras between Holism and Individualism - Jérôme Lallement
2 The Case against Market Perfection: The Two Bertrands' Objections are One - Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira
3 Walras, Marx and the Philosophy of History - Pierre Dockès
4 Sraffa without Walras - Richard Arena
Part II: The Spreading of Thought
Léon Walrass Reception
5 Walras in the Age of Marshall: An Analysis of English-Language Journals, 1890-1939 - Roger E Backhouse and Steven G Medema
6 The English Translation of Léon Walrass Études déconomie sociale - Donald Walker and Jan van Daal
The Lausanne School
7 Pareto: A Possible Forerunner of the Studies on Social Complexity - Fiorenzo Mornati
8 Samsonoff on Rent Theory: Or, Yet Another Member of the Lausanne School? - François Allisson
French Matters
9 Administration and ?conomic Government in Quesnay's Political Economy - Philippe Steiner
10 Constant as a Reader of Sismondi - Francesca Sofia and Francesca Dal Degan
11 French Liberal Economists and the 'Labour Question' before and during the Revolution of 1848 - Jean-Pierre Potier
Cambridge UK
12 Whatever Happened to the Keynesian Multiplier? - Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
13 Sundry Observations and New Findings on the Anglo-Italian Tradition of Economic Thought - Pier Luigi Porta
Part III: Monetary Theory
14 Financial Stability: The Role of Central Banks - Jean-Pierre Danthine
15 The Fisher Relation in the Great Depression and the Great Recession - David Laidler
16 Endogenous Money in an Elementary Search Model: Intrinsic Properties versus Bootstrap - Jean Cartelier
17 Digression on the Relations between Anthropology and Economics on the Topic of 'Primitive Currencies: A Page in the History of Thought - Solène Morvant-Roux and Jean-Michel Servet
Part IV: Methodology
18 The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics in Adam Smith - Amos Witztum
19 Why do Economists and Philosophers Resort to the History of their Discipline? - Pierre Livet
20 Interest-Based Prediction and Mutual Expectations: Reflections on the Normative Value of Hobbesian Methodology - Emmanuel Picavet
21 Tempests of the Business World: Weather Metaphors for Crises in the Nineteenth Century - Daniele Besomi
22 Samuelson and the Non-Substitution Theorem: Some Methodological Remarks - Amanar Akhabbar
Part V: Economics and Humanities
Economics and Social Sciences
23 Homo ?conomicus and Homo Sociologicus as Contrasted Ideal-Types - Jacques Coenen-Huther
24 Social Sciences in Front of 'Broad Questions - Jean-Pierre Gaudin
25 Sociology: An Infirm Science? - Giovanni Busino
Some Insights from Visual Arts
26 Imaginative Intelligence: Cognition in the Visual Arts versus Rationality in Economics - Bruna Ingrao
27 Realism and Reality: The Arguments of Cinema - Maria Tortajada
Part VI: Economics and Civil Society
28 A Reflection on the Social Utility of Modern Macroeconomics - Michel De Vroey
29 Failing to Control: Accountability in Historical Perspective - Biancamaria Fontana
30 Does Transparency Engender the Confidence of the Governed? A Contribution to Political Thought - Sandrine Baume
31 The Enterprise Face to the Environmental Challenge: Straddling the Fence between Social Responsibility and Penal Responsibility - Nathalie Dongois and Sophie Swaton
32 Law as a System of Normative Production: Law and Semiotics - Pierre Moor
