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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MATHEMATICO-ECONOMIC WRITINGS.
§ 1 .
A bibliography of mathematico-economic writings was constructedby Jevons and extended* by his wife up to 1888. This list con-tains a number of works mathematical in tone only. I have selectedout of the whole number (196), those 50 which are either undoubt-edly mathematical or are closely associated logically or historicallywith the mathematical method. Thus Menger, though his writingsare not explicitly mathematical, is included for he founded the“Austrian School ’’ which has ever since been allied with the mathe-matical method. In this selected list the references are much abbre-viated and only the first edition of each work is cited.
The second list is intended to be an extension of that of Jevons upto the present date. I shall be indebted for information as to inac-curacies and omissions. A star has been placed opposite those writ-ings ih which mathematical method is employed only occasionally orwhose mathematical character is not explicitly expressed in symbolsor diagrams. In the case of Italian and Danish writings, with whichI am wholly unacquainted and in the case of a large number of otherswhich I have not been able to see and examine, I have been guidedby book notices or the wording of the title.
The list in Jevons ’ appendix and the second list here given maybe taken as a reasonably complete bibliography of mathematico-economic writings in the broadest sense, while the unstarred writingsin the abridged list of Jevons here quoted together with the un-starred writings in the second list represent the economic literaturewhich is strictly and avowedly mathematical. The distinctionbetween these two classes is tolerably well marked.
§2.
SELECTED FROM JEVONS.
1711 Ceva —De re nnramaria quoad fieri potuit geometrice Nactata.
1765 Beccaria —Tentativo analitico aui contrabandi. Etc..
1801 Canard —Principes d’economie politique.
1824 Thompson —Instrument of Exchange.
1826 von Thunen —Der isolirte Staat, etc.