I think it was Axel Leijonhufvud who first came up with the term.

Dave

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Subject: [SHOE] the not-so-Walrasian auctioneer

I'm reading through Leland Yeagers collected essays on political
economy (Is the Market a Test for Truth and Beauty?, Auburn 2011,
available online: http://mises.org/books/truth_and_beauty_yeager.pdf )

Yeager writes in a footnote, p. 4

"I cannot find mention of the auctioneer in Walras's own writings; and
Donald Walker, the leading living U.S. expert on Walras, assured me
(in conversation) that the auctioneer indeed does not appear in them.
That prodigious figure is the invention of later theorists trying to
make the theory tighter."

Does anybody know the originator of the "Walrasian auctioneer"?


Thanks in advance,

Stan Kwiatkowski,
Poland

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