Abstract
[This] beautiful and austere book . . . [is] an important landmark of economic theory.-F.H. Hahn, Journal of Political Economy An immortal classic of twentieth century economics. Every economist should own a copy.-Robert Lucas, University of Chicago Theory of Value offers a rigorous, axiomatic, and formal analysis of producer behavior, consumer behavior, general equilibrium, and the optimality of the market mechanism for resource allocation.
Keywords
AxiomEconomicsMathematical economicsValue (mathematics)Axiomatic systemValue theoryEconomic analysisNeoclassical economicsMicroeconomicsPositive economicsMathematicsClassical economicsPhilosophyEpistemology
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- 1960
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- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 149-149
- Citations
- 1805
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Cleon Harrell,
Gérard Debreu
(1960).
Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium.
Southern Economic Journal
, 27
(2)
, 149-149.
https://doi.org/10.2307/1055180
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- DOI
- 10.2307/1055180