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100 1 $aEdgeworth, Francis Ysidro,$d1845-1926.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85230225
245 10 $aEdgeworth on chance, economic hazard, and statistics /$cedited by Philip Mirowski.
260 $aLanham, MD :$bRowman & Littlefield,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $avii, 462 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe Worldly philosophy
500 $aIncludes the text of Metretike.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroductory Essay: Marshalling the Unruly Atoms: Understanding Edgeworth's Career / Philip Mirowski -- Edgeworth's Neglected Book. Metretike, or The Method of Measuring Probability and Utility. Appendix I, "On the Method of Least Squares" -- Selections from Edgeworth's Published Papers. "Mr. Leslie Stephen on Utilitarianism" "On the Method of Ascertaining a Change in the Value of Gold" "The Method of Least Squares" "The Physical Basis of Probability" "The Philosophy of Chance" "The Rationale of Exchange" "A Priori Probabilities" "Chance and Law" "The Calculus of Probabilities Applied to Psychical Research I" J. Venn "The Law of Error" F. Y. Edgeworth "The Law of Error" "The Empirical Proof of the Law of Error" "The Mathematical Theory of Banking" "New Methods of Measuring Variation in General Prices" "Statistical Correlation between Social Phenomena" "Supplementary Notes on Statistics" "On the Probable Errors of Frequency Constants" "Probability and Expectation".
505 0 $a"On the Use of the Theory of Probabilities in Statistics Relating to Society" "A Variant Proof of the Distribution of Velocities in a Molecular Chaos" "Molecular Statistics" "The Philosophy Chance" "The Element of Probability in Index Numbers" -- Selected Book Reviews. "Investigations in Currency and Finance" / W. Jevons. "Natural Inheritance" / F. Galton. "Elements d'Economie Politique Pure" / L. Walras. "Philosophy and Political Economy in some of their Historical Relations" / J. Bonar. "Principii di Statistica Metodologica" / R. Benini. "Laws of Wages: An Essay in Statistical Economics" / H. Moore. "A Reply to Professor Edgeworth's Review of Professor H. L. Moore's 'Law of Wages'" / H. Moore. "Scope and Methods of Statistics" / H. Westergaard. "The Change in the Distribution of the National Income, 1880-1913" / A. Bowley. "A Treatise on Probability" / J. Keynes. "Die Statistischen Forschungsmethoden" / E. Czuber.
505 0 $a"A Mathematical Theory of Evolution based on the Conclusions of Dr. J. C. Willis" / G. Yule -- Selected Unpublished Correspondence. Henry Ludwell Moore. Edwin Bidwell Wilson.
520 $aPractically every scholar who is concerned with the work of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926) feels compelled to preface discussion with some sort of apologia or rationalization. This tendency first surfaced in the context of an abortive attempt to get him elected to the British Royal Society, and things have not improved since his demise.
520 8 $aPhilip Mirowski contends that the bulk of these compulsive apologies derive from a single source, namely, the pervasive contemporary lack of interest in the intellectual trajectory of Edgeworth's career. Mirowski's introductory essay, in conjunction with the selection of Edgeworth's texts, serve to document a reevaluation, one that aims to recognize him as the dean of the second generation of neoclassical economists.
520 8 $aBy bringing together the two sides of Edgeworth's vast oeuvre, and by situating Edgeworth's statistical and economic writings in the late-Victorian intellectual context, Mirowski demonstrates that Edgeworth was clearly superior in intellectual tenor to the rest of his cohort of second-generation neoclassicals, who have garnered more than their fair share of attention and lionization by historians of economic thought.
650 0 $aRisk.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85114195
650 0 $aStatistics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127580
650 0 $aMathematical statistics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85082133
600 10 $aEdgeworth, Francis Ysidro,$d1845-1926.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85230225
700 1 $aMirowski, Philip,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85034512
700 12 $aEdgeworth, Francis Ysidro,$d1845-1926.$tMetretike.$f1994.
830 0 $aWorldly philosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92027326
852 00 $boff,bus$hHB615$i.E43 1994