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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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Source (journal)
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The European journal of the history of economic thought. - Andover, 1993, currens
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Publication
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Andover
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2009
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ISSN
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0967-2567
[print]
1469-5936
[online]
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DOI
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10.1080/09672560802707456
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Volume/pages
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16
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(2009)
, p. 123-154
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ISI
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000265302800005
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