Edgeworth on Chance, Economic Hazard, and Statistics
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Edgeworth on Chance, Economic Hazard, and Statistics
By (Author) Philip J. Mirowski
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
29th March 1994
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Biography: business and industry
330.01
Physical Properties
Hardback
470
Width 161mm, Height 235mm, Spine 31mm
785g
Description
Among the early neo-classical economists, Francis Edgeworth is known as one of the most brilliant. Mirowski has created an intellectual biography of this key figure that is unprecedented in scope.
Reviews
Miroowski is a genuinely thoughtful and provocative writer from whom any writer can benefit, and his selection from Edgeworth is a nice sampling of the work of a really first-rate mind and exploring problems that still confront us. -- Stephen M. Stigler, University of Chicago
Author Bio
Philip Mirowski, Professor of Economics and History of Science at University of Notre Dame, is the author of Against Mechanism: Protecting Economics From Science.
