scope and limits Mosini, Valeria enk London Routledge 2007 eng xxi, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. edited by Valeria Mosini Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Equilibrium (Economics) HB145 0415391377 (hbk.) 9780415391375 (hbk.) 2006020412 UIAM 071106 20230516121915.0 394196 eng