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A factual account of the functioning of the nineteenth-century Paris Bourse

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The auctioneer type of price formation process used in economic theory, allegedly based on the functioning of the nineteenth-century Paris Bourse, did not in fact have an empirical counterpart in that institution. Contemporaneous accounts are used to provide a correct description of it. It is shown that its institutions and procedures were very different from the received ideas. Prices were not called out by a market official; securities were not traded in the order in which they appeared on a list; disequilibrium transactions occurred; information varied during the course of the day; and a given security traded at many different prices during the course of a given session, and sometimes simultaneously at different prices.

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  • Donald Walker, 2001. "A factual account of the functioning of the nineteenth-century Paris Bourse," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 186-207.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:8:y:2001:i:2:p:186-207
    DOI: 10.1080/0967256011039281
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    1. Hicks, J. R., 1975. "Value and Capital: An Inquiry into some Fundamental Principles of Economic Theory," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, edition 2, number 9780198282693.
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