The Evolutionist Economics of Leon Walras

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Walrasian economics, and by extension Walras, has become a synonym for narrowly mechanistic approaches to the subject. This book, however, demonstrates that this belief is the result of a reading of Walras which is at best very partial. Albert Jolink shows that Walras' work had strong evolutionary traits and that Walras had a broader social vision than many of the economists who have taken up his