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Roger Backhouse's comments about the ability to read French (or German) is 
probably also true for the US. For instance, earlier volumes of US journals 
like the AER and QJE are full of untranslated quotations and reviews of 
books published in French (or German).  As to Walras more specifically, 
note for instance that already the very first issue of the Harvard-based 
Quarterly Journal of Economics (October 1886) contains a short piece under 
Notes and Memoranda entitled "Silver as a regulator of prices (p. 81), 
which starts: "M. Leon Walras, professor at the Academy of Lausanne, and 
well known as the leading advocate and student of the mathematical theory 
of political economy 
...." Irving Fisher pointed out that he had read Walras.  
 
Thomas Moser 
 
 
 
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