(1) On-Line Text Archives
(2) Major Texts On this Site
(3) Minor Texts On this Site

(1) ON-LINE TEXT ARCHIVES

Many of the original electronic texts accessible through our site are originally located at Roderick Hay's McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought.  It is mirrored in Tony Brewer's Bristol (UK) archive  and Robert Dixon's Melbourne (Australia) archive.  

Other notable sources of  HET texts we have linked to are the Le Jardin aux Sentiers qui Bifurquent of Paulette Taieb, the Bibliothèque Virtuelle of the Centre d'Histoire de la Pensée Economique and the Library of Economics and Liberty at the Liberty Fund.  

We have linked extensively into specialized depositories such as the Cowles Discussion Papers Reprints at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University and the Marxists Internet Archive at Marxists.org.  We have also scoured the two massive "Making of America" databases -- MOA-Cornell and MOA-Michigan -- and the enormous Gallica website of the Bibliothèque National de France.  We have linked to many delighful and surprising finds here.

All these sites must be applauded for the real work they have undertaken to bring numerous classic works of economics onto the world wide web.  

We have not linked to individual articles in the massive JSTOR website as access  requires a site license (check with your local university or library).  We hope that at some point in the future, the organizers of JSTOR will make arrangements so as to permit  independent, individual researchers to access this information.  At present, there is only very limited individual accessibility.

(2) MAJOR TEXTS ON THIS SITE

We have only a very few electronic texts located on this website.   We have not attempted to mirror or duplicate the efforts of others.  However, on occasion we have found that several online essays were difficult to access and have extracted them and mirrored them here.  We have also uploaded a few interesting essays which may be generally hard to find even in a well-equipped library.  As most of these texts were obtained elsewhere on the web, we assume (but have not been able to verify in every case) that they have been released into the public domain.  If you are the owner of the copyright of any of these texts, please inform us and we will remove them immediately or add an explicit acknowledgement.

The following electronic texts on this website (in rough chronological order with full citations and source): 

• Thomas de Quincey (1823) "Measure of Value", London Magazine -  PDF, extracted from Gallica

• Thomas de Quincey (1823) "Letter in Reply to Hazlitt Concerning the Malthusian Population Doctrine", London Magazine - PDF, extracted from Gallica

• Thomas de Quincey (1824) "The Services of Mr. Ricardo to the Science of Political Economy", London Magazine (?) -  PDF, extracted from Gallica

• Thomas Carlyle (1831) "Characteristics", Edinburgh Review.

• Auguste Walras (1836) "Considérations sur la mesure de la valeur et sur la fonction de métaux precieux et l'appréciation de la richesse sociale",  p.243-74 (Part 1), p.312-341 (Part 2), Revue mensuelle d'économie politique, Vol. 5 - PDF, extracted from Gallica.

• Augustin Cournot (1838) "Mémoire sur les applications du calcul des chances à la statistique judiciaire", Journal des mathématiques pures et appliquées, 12. T. 3. p.257-334. 

• Thomas Carlyle (1849) "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question", Fraser's Magazine - extracted from Making of America

• Thomas Carlyle (1850) Latter-Day Pamphlets (I-VI) 

• John Stuart Mill (1850) "The Negro Question", Fraser's Magazine - extracted from Making of America

• Thomas Carlyle (1853) Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question - extracted from Making of America

• Thomas Carlyle (1867) "Shooting Niagara -- And After?", Macmillan's Magazine- extracted from Making of America

• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1879) "The Hedonical Calculus", Mind, Vol. 4, Issue 15 (July), p.394-408. (PDF) 

• Alfred Marshall (1881) "Review of Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics", The Academy, June 18, 1881, p.457. (HTML, also PDF version)

•  William Stanley Jevons (1881) "Review of Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics", Mind, Vol. 6, p.581-583.  (HTML, also PDF version)

• R.H. (1883) "William Stanley Jevons: Obituary Notice", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Vol. 35, p.i-xii. - PDF, extracted from Gallica

• Joseph L.F. Bertrand (1883) "Théorie des Richesses: revue de Théories mathématiques de la richesse sociale par Léon Walras et Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses par Augustin Cournot",  Journal des Savants,  Vol. 67, p.499-508. -- PDF, extracted from Gallica  

• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1884) "The Rationale of Exchange", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 47, Issue 1 (March), p.165-6.  (HTML, also PDF version)

• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1889) "The Mathematical Theory of Political Economy: Review of Léon Walras, Éléments d'économie politique pure", Nature, Vol. 40, No. 1036, Sept. 5, p.434-6. (HTML, also PDF version)

• Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1890) "Review of Léon Walras, Éléments d'économie politique pure, 2^e édit.", Revue d'économie politique, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January-February), p.80-86. (HTML, also PDF version)

• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth  (1891) "La Théorie mathématique de l'offre et de la demande et le coût de production", Revue d'économie politique, Vol. 5, No. 1 (January), p.10-28. (HTML, also PDF version)

• Vilfredo Pareto (1891) "L'Italie économique", 1891, Revue des deux mondes, T. 107, 3e periode, p.904-44. - PDF, extracted from Gallica

• Philip H. Wicksteed (1894) An Essay on the Co-ordination of the Laws of Distribution. London: Macmillan. (PDF)

• Alfred W. Flux (1894) "Review of Wicksteed's Essay", Economic Journal, Vol. 4 (14), June, p.308-313. (PDF)

• Philip H. Wicksteed (1905) "Jevons's Economic Work", Economic Journal, Vol. 15, Issue 59 (September), p.432-6. (HTML, also PDF version)

• Philip H. Wicksteed (1906) "Review of Pareto's Manuale di Economia Politica", Economic Journal, Vol. 16, Issue 64 (December), p.553-7  (HTML, also PDF version)

• Léon Walras (1909) "Économique et Méchanique", Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise de Sciences Naturelles, Vol. 45, p.313-325. (PDF)

• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1925) Papers Relating to Political Economy, Volumes I, II, III, London: Macmillan for the Royal Economic Society, - individual essays in PDF format, extracted from Gallica

• Piero Sraffa (1925) "On the Relations Between Costs and Quantities Produced", Annali di Economia (English transl., PDF) -- text due to Frederic Lee.

• Piero Sraffa (1926) "The Laws of Returns under Competitive Conditions", 1926, Economic Journal  - (HTML, also PDF version) -- texts due to John M. Legge.

• Frank P. Ramsey (1926)  "Truth and Probability" (1926) plus "Further Considerations" (1928) &  "Probability and Partial Belief" (1929) (from Ramsey's Foundations of Mathematics, 1931, London: Kegan Paul)  (PDF)

• Jacob Viner (1950) A Modest Proposal for Some Stress on Scholarship in Graduate Training. - (HTML, also PDF version).

• Gérard Debreu (1991) "The Mathematization of Economic Theory",  American Economic Review  -- text due to Ron Calitri.

(3) MINOR TEXTS ON THIS SITE

The following minor reviews and notices of works of interest are located on this website.  They were all extracted from Gallica and are mirrored here in PDF form:

• "La metaphysique d'inspiration et la metaphysique scientifique. MM. Dumesnil et Cournot", 1862, L'année littéraire et dramatique, 1. Année 4, p. 382-7. 

• "Les questions d'actualité élevées à l'état de thèses scientifiques et de dogmes philosophiques -- MM. Cournot et J. Simon" 1865, L'année littéraire et dramatique, 1. Année 7, p. 311-4.

• "Review of Cournot's Considérations sur la marche des idées" by H. Chotard, 1872, Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature, 26. Année 6. Semestre 2. p.219-24.

• "Un Géomètre Philosophe: Antoine-Augustin Cournot" by Louis Liard, 1877, Revue des deux mondes, 1 fasc. 3e période. T. 22. (juill.-août), p.102-24. 

• "MM. Cournot, Naudon, Boutrot", Ch. 2 (p. 18-36) of Paul Janet, 1879,  La philosophie française contemporaine. Paris: C. Levy.

• " Philosophes contemporains: M. Cournot" by T.V. Charpentier, 1881, Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, 6 fasc.. Année 6, p.494-518.

• "Letter from Jules Ferry to Leon Walras", July 19, 1887, in J. Ferry, Lettres : 1846-1893.

• "Ravaisson on Cournot", Ch. 32 (p.219-228) of Félix Ravaisson, 1889, La philosophie en France au XIXe siècle, 1889, Paris: Hachette.

• "The Asymmetrical Probability Curve (Abstract)", by F.Y. Edgeworth, 1894, Proceedings of Royal Society

• "Review of Walras's Elements d'économie politique pure",1896, Le devenir social, Ann. 2, N.12, p.1066-7.

• "Review of Pareto's Cours d'économie politique, Vol. 1" by Georges Sorel, 1896, Le devenir social, Ann. 2, N. 5, May. 

• "Review of Pareto's Cours d'économie politique, Vol. 2" by Georges Sorel, 1897, Le devenir social, Ann. 3, N. 5, May. 

• "Review of Walras's Études d'économie sociale", by A. Lr., 1897, Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature, Ann. 31, p. 159-60.

• "Notice of Walras's Études d'économie sociale" , 1897, L'année sociologique, Ann. 1, p.499-500.

• "Notice of Walras's Études d'économie politique appliquée" , 1899, L'année sociologique, Ann. 3, p.498-9.

• "Review of Walras's Elements d'économie politique pure" by C.A. Laisant, 1901, Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées, T. 12, p.1082

• "Review of Aupetit's Essai sur la Théorie Générale de la Monnaie" by Marcel Bichon, 1901, Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées

• "Le Hasard chez Aristote et chez Cournot" by Gaston Milhaud, 1902, Revue de métaphysique et de morale 6, Année 10, p.667-81.  

• "Review of Pareto's Manuale di Economia Politica" by M. Halbwachs, 1906, L'année sociologique, Ann. 10

• "Review of Jevons's Theory, Pareto's Manuel and Marshall's Principles" by François Simiand, 1909, L'année sociologique, Ann. 11

• "Review of F. Mentré, Cournot et la renaissance du probabilisme", by A. Penjon, 1909, Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, 6 fasc.. Année 34.  p.67-75.

• "Review of Pareto's Traité de sociologie générale" by C. Bouglé, 1919, Revue historique

• "Review of Pareto's Traité de sociologie générale" by F. Bd., 1919, Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature

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