Researchers from Europe, North America, Taiwan, and Brazil present six papers from a symposium on the historical epistemology of economics, along with an essay on the “value paradox” in art economics and a classic essay on Augustin Cournot and the bargaining problem. Symposium essays discuss the scientific understanding of the 18th-century French physiocrats, Stanley Jevons’ and Alfred Marshall’s diagrammatical methods, how US military administrators of postwar Germany reconfigured the institutional context to generate policy-relevant economic statistics and reports, Gérard Debreu’s personal values and their influences on his theorizing about economic value, and the French tradition of historical epistemology.

• Part I: A Symposium on the Historical Epistemology of EconomicsIntroduction; Till Düppe and Harro Maas 1. Physiocracy as an Eighteenth-Century Science; Loïc Charles and Christine Théré 2. Engines of Discovery: Jevons and Marshall on the Methods of Graphs and Diagrams; Hsiang-Ke Chao and Harro Maas 3. Political Infrastructures for Economic Knowledge: The American Military Administration of Germany and its View of the German Economy, 1945-1947; Tobias Vogelsang 4. Gerard Debreu's Values: Axioms and Anecdotes; Till Düppe 5. Historical Epistemology and the History of Economics: Views through the Lens of Practice; Thomas A. StaplefordPart II: Essays6. On the "Value Paradox" in Art Economics; Cameron Weber Part III: From the Vault7. Some Notes on Cournot and the Bargaining Problem; Marc Nerlove with a foreword by Olav Bjerkholt

Researchers from Europe, North America, Taiwan, and Brazil present six papers from a symposium on the historical epistemology of economics, along with an essay on the “value paradox” in art economics and a classic essay on Augustin Cournot and the bargaining problem. Symposium essays discuss the scientific understanding of the 18th-century French physiocrats, Stanley Jevons’ and Alfred Marshall’s diagrammatical methods, how US military administrators of postwar Germany reconfigured the institutional context to generate policy-relevant economic statistics and reports, Gérard Debreu’s personal values and their influences on his theorizing about economic value, and the French tradition of historical epistemology.

• Part I: A Symposium on the Historical Epistemology of EconomicsIntroduction; Till Düppe and Harro Maas 1. Physiocracy as an Eighteenth-Century Science; Loïc Charles and Christine Théré 2. Engines of Discovery: Jevons and Marshall on the Methods of Graphs and Diagrams; Hsiang-Ke Chao and Harro Maas 3. Political Infrastructures for Economic Knowledge: The American Military Administration of Germany and its View of the German Economy, 1945-1947; Tobias Vogelsang 4. Gerard Debreu's Values: Axioms and Anecdotes; Till Düppe 5. Historical Epistemology and the History of Economics: Views through the Lens of Practice; Thomas A. StaplefordPart II: Essays6. On the "Value Paradox" in Art Economics; Cameron Weber Part III: From the Vault7. Some Notes on Cournot and the Bargaining Problem; Marc Nerlove with a foreword by Olav Bjerkholt

Researchers from Europe, North America, Taiwan, and Brazil present six papers from a symposium on the historical epistemology of economics, along with an essay on the “value paradox” in art economics and a classic essay on Augustin Cournot and the bargaining problem. Symposium essays discuss the scientific understanding of the 18th-century French physiocrats, Stanley Jevons’ and Alfred Marshall’s diagrammatical methods, how US military administrators of postwar Germany reconfigured the institutional context to generate policy-relevant economic statistics and reports, Gérard Debreu’s personal values and their influences on his theorizing about economic value, and the French tradition of historical epistemology.

• Part I: A Symposium on the Historical Epistemology of EconomicsIntroduction; Till Düppe and Harro Maas 1. Physiocracy as an Eighteenth-Century Science; Loïc Charles and Christine Théré 2. Engines of Discovery: Jevons and Marshall on the Methods of Graphs and Diagrams; Hsiang-Ke Chao and Harro Maas 3. Political Infrastructures for Economic Knowledge: The American Military Administration of Germany and its View of the German Economy, 1945-1947; Tobias Vogelsang 4. Gerard Debreu's Values: Axioms and Anecdotes; Till Düppe 5. Historical Epistemology and the History of Economics: Views through the Lens of Practice; Thomas A. StaplefordPart II: Essays6. On the "Value Paradox" in Art Economics; Cameron Weber Part III: From the Vault7. Some Notes on Cournot and the Bargaining Problem; Marc Nerlove with a foreword by Olav Bjerkholt