120 Irvincj Fisher — Matheniatical investigations 



APPENDIX IV. 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MATHEMATICO-ECONOMIC WRITINGS. 



§1. 



A bibliography of niatbematico-economic writings was constructed 

 by Jevons and extended* by his wife up to 1888. This list con- 

 tains a number of works mathematical in tone only. I have selected 

 out of the whole number (196), those 50 which are either undoubt- 

 edly mathematical or are closely associated logically or historically 

 with the mathematical method. Thus Menger, though his writings 

 are not explicitly mathematical, is included for he founded the 

 "Austrian School" which has ever since been allied with the mathe- 

 matical method. In this selected list the references are much abbre- 

 viated and only the first edition of each work is cited. 



The second list is intended to be an extension of that of Jevons up 

 to the present date. I shall be indebted for information as to inac- 

 curacies and omissions. A star has been placed opposite those writ- 

 ings in which mathematical method is employed only occasionally or 

 whose mathematical character is not explicitly expressed in symbols 

 or diagrams. In the case of Italian and Danish writings, with which 

 I am wholly unacquainted and in the case of a large number of others 

 which I have not been able to see and examine, I have been guided 

 by book notices or the wording of the title. 



The list in Jevons' appendix and the second list here given may 

 be taken as a reasonably complete bibliography of mathematico- 

 economic writings in the broadest sense, while the unstarred writings 

 in the abridged list of Jevons here quoted together with the un- 

 starred writings in the second list represent the economic literature 

 which is strictly and avowedly mathematical. The distinction 

 between these two classes is tolerably well marked. 



§2. 



SELECTED FROM JEVONS. 



1711 Ceva — De re nnmmaria quoad fieri potiiit geometrice Nactata. 



1765 Beccaria — Teutativo analitico sui coutrabaiidi. Etc. 



1801 Canard — Principes d'economie politique. 



1824 Thompson — Instrument of Exchange. 



1826 von Thunen — Der isolirte Staat, etc. 



* Pol. Econ., Appendix I to third edition, 1888. 



