IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cje/issued/v21y1988i3p610-16.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Early Canadian Contribution to Mathematical Economics: J. B. Cherriman's 1857 Review of Cournot

Author

Listed:
  • Robert W. Dimand

Abstract

Cournot's Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth ( 1838) was ignored by the economics profession for forty years before its rediscovery by Stanley W. Jevons and Leon Walras. In those years, the only published recognition of it was a ten-page review in 1857 b y Canadian mathematician J. B. Cherriman. This paper examines Cherrim an's able analysis of Cournot's methodological and substantive contri butions. Since Cherriman came to Canada from a fellowship at Cambridg e, his review throws light on the question of whether Cournot's work was known to "the Whewell group of mathematical economists" at Camb ridge, who have been the subject of much recent journal discussion.

Suggested Citation

  • Robert W. Dimand, 1988. "An Early Canadian Contribution to Mathematical Economics: J. B. Cherriman's 1857 Review of Cournot," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 21(3), pages 610-616, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:21:y:1988:i:3:p:610-16
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0008-4085%28198808%2921%3A3%3C610%3AAECCTM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
    Download Restriction: only available to JSTOR subscribers
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Andres Vazquez, 2006. "Slonimsky's view on Antoine-Augustin Cournot," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 533-541.
    2. James W. Friedman, 2000. "The legacy of Augustin Cournot," Cahiers d'Économie Politique, Programme National Persée, vol. 37(1), pages 31-46.
    3. Robert Dimand & Mohammed Dore, 1999. "Cournot, Bertrand, and game theory: A further note," Atlantic Economic Journal, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 27(3), pages 325-333, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:21:y:1988:i:3:p:610-16. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Prof. Werner Antweiler (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ceaaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.