Equilibrium in economics :  scope and limits / 
edited by Valeria Mosini 
 - London :  Routledge,  2007 
 - xxi, 284 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge frontiers of political economy  83. .
 - Routledge frontiers of political economy  83. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : three ways of looking at economic equilibrium / Valeria Mosini -- Equilibrium in mechanics and then in economics, 1860-1920 : a good source for analogies? / Ivor Grattan-Guinness -- Between economics and chemistry : Lavoisier's and Le Chatelier's notions of equilibrium / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Valeria Mosini -- The ubiquity of the notion of equilibrium in biology, and its relation to equilibrium in economics / Louise Jarvis and Valeria Mosini -- 'Sympathy', character and economic equilibrium / William Dixon and David Wilson -- Economic equilibrium in the French Enlightenment : the case of A.N. Isnard / Richard van den Berg -- Influences on the economic theory of A.A. Cournot : mechanics, physics and biology / Francِois Vatin -- Tensions in modern economics : the case of equilibrium analysis / Tony Lawson -- Equilibrium and problem solving in economics / Roger E. Backhouse -- Equilibrium analysis : a middlebrow view / Warren J. Samuels -- Equilibrium in economics, stability and stationarity in econometrics / Jim Thomas --Equilibrium in economics : some concepts and controversies / Victoria Chick -- Heavens above : what equilibrium means for economics / Alan Freeman -- The hypostatisation of the concept of equilibrium in neoclassical economics / Andy Denis. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415391377 (hbk.) 9780415391375 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006020412 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Equilibrium (Economics)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HB145