The Formalist Revolution of the 1950s

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 395-410

  Blaug, Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competitive equilibrium; Formalist revolution of 1950s; General equilibrium; Market economy; The theory of games and economic behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889874164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999059.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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