Dear all, 

About Emil Kauder: Not only a very good article: Emil Kauder, the emigrant from Austria to Illinois, and indefatigable researcher for the sake of utility theories, was the seminal author in the (re)discovery of Carl Menger's archives in Japan. See his other texts, relating the origins of the Austrian school and Menger's reading of Aristotle, based on his campaign of exploration of the archives at Hitotsubashi University (Japan) in 1959-1960. However, Kauder had not finished the job and a few Japanese scholars, as well as myself, have completed this task in our publications respectively. 

The point is that, without that assessment of utility theory in Menger's archives the history of utility theory would remain incomplete. Kauder's work is to be praised for initiating that task.

Regards to the whole community and a nice summer,
Gilles Campagnolo
Full Research Professor, French National Center for Scientific Research
Senior Member, Aix-Marseilles School of Economics

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> From: Lilia Costabile <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tue Jul 17 07:42:09 CEST 2012
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [SHOE] History of microeconomics?
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> This is a very good article, I think.
> Regards
> Lilia Costabile
> 
> E. Kauder, Genesis of the marginal utility theory: from Aristotele to the end of the eighteenth century, «Economic journal», 1953, 63, 251, pp. 638-50.
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> 
> On 16/lug/2012, at 21.17, Martin Kragh wrote:
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> > Just a short note. The terms micro economics, macro economics and econometrics were used by Ragnar Frisch in the early 1930s already. See his Propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics published in Essays in honour of Gustav Cassel 1933. 
> > 
> > The term macro economy was used by Erik Lindahl even earlier. I am not sure how wide spread the term was. 
> > 
> > Kindly
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 16 jul 2012 kl. 19:10 skrev "Nicholas Theocarakis" <[log in to unmask]>:
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> >>  
> >> I suspect that there is no book on the history of microeconomics for a reason. [The book cited is about Jules Dupuit]. Microeconomics is a term coined in the 40s [Econometrica 1943 according to OED] in contradistinction to macroeconomics.  Before that distinction the term for microeconomics proper was "price theory".  In a sense, however, the history of microeconomics is the history of neoclassical economic theory. The epistemological principle of methodological individualism dictates so.  After the "return of the clones" [representative agent, microfoundations, etc.], the case for macro as a special case of a reductionist micro is more pronounced.
> >>  
> >>  
> >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Manuela Mosca <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> You could try
> >> 
> >> Ekelund and Hebert, Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics, The
> >> University of Chicago Press, 1999.
> >> 
> >> Manuela
> >> 
> >> > Dear all
> >> >
> >> > I've been trying to find an overview history of microeconomics, but with
> >> > not much luck. Does anybody have any tips?
> >> >
> >> > All the best
> >> >
> >> > Bob
> >> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Manuela Mosca
> >> Universita' del Salento - Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Economia
> >> Universita' di Bologna - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
> >> website: http://www.dsems.unile.it/mosca/index.htm
> >> ssrn author page:
> >> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=352869
> >> 
>