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The postings that credited Wicksell as an important source through which 
Walrasian ideas entered the English speaking community are correct, 
although I agree earlier economists such as Marshall were well aware of 
Walras, but they just didn't see his insights as that important.  My work 
on Abba Lerner suggests that it was in 1935 that Abba changed from thinking 
in terms of partial equilibrium and a Marshallian chain of reasoning to 
thinking in terms of general equilibrium outside a Marshallian chain of 
reasoning, and that that adjustment led him to his work on the welfare 
theorems and the socialist calculation debate and market socialism.       
 
So the interesting insight for me is that Walrasian-type general 
equilibrium thinking significantly influenced the British economics 
profession long before Jaffe's translation.   
 
Dave Colander 
 
 
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