Dear all,

If Walras did not use the French equivalent of the word "auctioneers" 
in his Elements,-- please check whether this is right -- 
does it mean that Jaffe contributed a great deal to popularize the
concept?

To be sure, "criers" do not seem so attractive 
for those engaged in the pedagogic 
explanation of Walrasian economics.

Cheers,

Yukihiro Ikeda

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:42:45 +0000
Erreygers Guido <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The term "crieurs" occurs both in section 41 and in section 61 of Walras's Elements d'Economie Politique Pure. In Jaffe's version this is translated first as "criers" (41) and then as "auctioneers" (61).
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> Guido Erreygers, University of Antwerp
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> -----Original Message-----
> I'm reading through Leland Yeagers collected essays on political
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> economy (Is the Market a Test for Truth and Beauty?, Auburn 2011,
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> available online: http://mises.org/books/truth_and_beauty_yeager.pdf )
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> Yeager writes in a footnote, p. 4
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> "I cannot find mention of the auctioneer in Walras's own writings; and
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> Donald Walker, the leading living U.S. expert on Walras, assured me
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> (in conversation) that the auctioneer indeed does not appear in them.
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> That prodigious figure is the invention of later theorists trying to
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> make the theory tighter."
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> Does anybody know the originator of the "Walrasian auctioneer"?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Stan Kwiatkowski,
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> Poland

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