In this study, we examine how Léon Walras considered the economic evolution towards the most advanced stage of the history of mankind, the so-called ?industrial and commercial regime?. This enables us to present his ideas concerning the ?modern industry? and also to examine the way in which he...

Jean-Baptiste Say belongs to the important names of the French Political Economy of the XIXth century. Because of its role in the process of institutionalization of political economy, his even more famous abroad. The knowledge of Say's works remained however partial until now, for lack of a...

Les questions du marché du travail, des conflits sociaux, de la législation sociale ont profondément préoccupé Léon Walras durant toute sa carrière. Il a mené à ce sujet des controverses nourries avec les économistes et avec les socialistes de son temps et il a fait évoluer...

On a trop tendance encore aujourd'hui à assimiler la « libre concurrence » chez Léon Walras et la « concurrence pure et parfaite » comme structure de marché de la vulgate néo-classique. Nous chercherons à montrer dans cette étude que chez Walras, la libre concurrence, quel que soit le...

While deriving their explanation of positive utility interdependence from Edgeworth's presupposition that concern for others' welfare varies with the 'social distance' between individuals, economic theorists have overlooked both Smith's idea that sympathy can also develop on the basis of empathy...