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Our daily bread: Maurice Potron, from catholicism to mathematical economics
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Author
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Abstract
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| Maurice Potron (1872-1942) is a French Jesuit and mathematician whose main source of inspiration in economics is the encyclical Rerum Novarum. With virtually no knowledge in economic theory, he wrote down a linear model of production in which he formalized the notions of just prices and just wages. As early as 1911, he used the Perron-Frobenius theorem to prove the existence of a positive solution and established a duality result between the quantity side and the price side of the model. He returned to economics in the 1930s, but in both periods he failed to make a lasting impression upon economists. |
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Language
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English
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Research paper / UA, Faculty of Applied Economics , 2007:7
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Publication
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Antwerp
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UA
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2007
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42 p.
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Full text (open access)
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