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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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