Cournot

Even more curious is that those two companies are the same two that inspired civil engineer Augustin Cournot back in 1838 to be the first to apply calculus to economics when he studied the profit-maximizing behavior of a duopoly of firms, in his case, these two firms supplying a city with water out of a single lake, with his solution being a predecessor and special case of the Nash equilibrium.

Robert Fogel Interview, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But Allais was also influenced by earlier great French economists such as Augustin Cournot and

The Prize in Economics 1988 - Presentation Speech 1992

And as long as the Saudis keep cheap oil locked away in the ground, the competivitve price (estimated to be between $8-$10 per barrel) will be far exceeded, as it is in all Cournot markets.

A Glimmer of Hope on Oil, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

If we're talking influential economists with an influence through economics and not simply through policy couched in economic terms leaving out Malthus and Marx -- a non-obvious candidate would be Cournot.

Most Influential Economist?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Under the very strong Cournot assumptions of the day oligopolists simply could not avoid setting prices above costs and continuously and excessively differentiating their products.

Hovenkamp on The Neal Report and the Crisis in Antitrust Mary L. Dudziak 2009

In the case of Cournot this is spelled out in terms of the opposition between

Explanation in Mathematics Mancosu, Paolo 2008

This method is practiced in France by Cournot, in England by Edgeworth, Wicksteed, Walras, Jevons, and Marshall, and in the United States by Irving Fisher.

Schools of Political Economy Part One 2008

Modern economics, emancipated from the pseudo science of the false abstraction ‘economic man,’ was created in the eighteen-seventies by Alfred Marshall and Stanley Jevons, following Cournot in France.

The Pseudo-Science of Economics 2008

Cournot "The Historical Character of the Bible" Traite de l'enchainement des idees fondamentales dans les sciences et dans l'histoire, ed.

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Cournot "The Historical Character of the Bible" Traite de l'enchainement des idees fondamentales dans les sciences et dans l'histoire, ed.

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