Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Roy Grieve
Author-Name-First: Roy
Author-Name-Last: Grieve
Author-Email: roygrieve@btinternet.com
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde
Title: Economic Geometry: Marshalls and Other Early Representations of Demand and Supply.
Abstract: Does an apparent (minor) anomaly, said to occur not infrequently in elementary expositions of supply and demand theory, really imply – as seems to be suggested – that there is something a bit odd about Marshall’s diagrammatic handling of demand and supply? On investigation, we find some interesting differences of focus and exposition amongst the theorists who first developed the ‘geometric’ treatment of demand and supply, but find no reason, despite his differences from other marginalist pioneers such as Cournot, Dupuit and Walras, to consider Marshall’s treatment either as unconventional or forced, or as to regard him as the ‘odd man out’.
Length: 28 pages
Creation-Date: 2008-04
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File-URL: http://www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwebsite/departmentsubject/economics/research/researchdiscussionpapers/2008/media_113041_en.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 0806
Classification-JEL: B13
Keywords: Marshall; Marginalist Pioneers; Diagrammatic Conventions
Handle: RePEc:str:wpaper:0806