Essays on the life and work of Leon Walras, the founder of general equilibrium analysis.

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Walras's Biography: 1. Unpublished papers and letters of Léon Walras (1935); 2. Léon Walras, an economic advisor manqué (1975); Part II. The Genesis and Development of Walras's Ideas: 3. A. N. Isnard, progenitor of the Walrasian general equilibrium model (1969); 4. The birth of Léon Walras's Eléments (1977); 5. A centenarian on a bicentenarian: Léon Walras's Eléments on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1977); 6. Léon Walras and his relations with American economists (1960); Part III. The Scope of Walras's Work: 7. Léon Walras and his conception of economics (1956); 8. Léon Walras (1968); Part IV. Special Topics in Walras's Economics: 9. Léon Walras' theory of capital accumulation (1942); 10. Walras's theory of capital formation in the framework of his theory of general equilibrium (1953); 11. New light on an old quarrel: Barone's unpublished review of Wicksteed's 'Essay on the coordination of the laws of distribution' and related documents (1964); 12. The Walras-Poincaré correspondence on the cardinal measurability of utility (1977); 13. Walras' theory of tâtonnement: a critique of recent interpretations (1967); 14. Another look at Léon Walras's theory of tâtonnement (1981); Part V. Walras's Place in the History of Economic Thought: 15. Reflections on the importance of Léon Walras (1971); 16. Léon Walras's role in the 'marginal revolution' of the 1870s (1972); 17. Menger, Jevons and Walras de-homogenized (1976); 18. The normative bias of the Walrasian model: Walras versus Gossen (1977); 19. Walras's economics as others see it (1980); Index.