Siting the New Economic Science: The Cowles Commission’s Activity Analysis Conference of June 1949
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Keywords
Cowles Commission; activity analysis; linear programming; general equilibrium theory; von Neumann; Koopmans; Dantzig; fixed point theorems;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B2 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925
- C0 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2013-06-16 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HPE-2013-06-16 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-SOG-2013-06-16 (Sociology of Economics)
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