Francis Ysidro EDGEWORTH

Background

EDGEWORTH, Francis Ysidro was born in 1845 in Edgeworthstown, Company Longford, Ireland.

Education

Bachelor of Arts University Oxford, 1869.

Career

His earliest writings are concerned with the application of mathematics to social science questions and in Mathematical Psychics he worked out practical aspects of utilitarian ethics in mathematical form. The insights on exchange equilibrium, welfare economics and the theory of barter are still valuable. His chief output was in article form on topics such as taxation, monopoly, index numbers and value of money.

His exposition was obscure and his personality was retiring, with the result that his ideas are continually being rediscovered by those who arrive at them in their own way.

Though his work was never drawn together into a comprehensive scheme, he is still valued for his various precedents in mathematical economics and statistics. His ideas on the ‘contract curve’ and the ‘core’ of an exchange economy have recently attracted considerable attention.

His editorship of the Economic Journal was of major value to the British economic community. Lector Logic, Tooke Professor Economics Science and Statistics, King’s College London, 1880-1889, 1890-1891.

Drummond Professor Political Economics, Fellow, All Souls College Oxford, 1891-1922.

Achievements

• Fellow, British Academy. Vice-President, Royal Economic Society, United Kingdom. President, Royal Statistical Society, United Kingdom. President, Economics Section, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1889, 1922. Editor, Economic Journal, 1891-1926.

Works

• book

  • Psicologia matematica/ Mathematical Psychics (Clasicos De La Economia/ Classics of Economy) (Spanish Edition)

    (Obra de una singular originalidad que ofrece gran varieda...)

  • Mathematical Psychics an Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences (Classic Reprint)

    (The application of mathematics to Beliefs the calculus of...)

  • Mathematical psychics

    (Mathematical psychics an essay on the application of math...)

  • New and Old Methods of Ethics: Or "Physical Ethics" and "Methods of Ethics".

    (This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)

  • Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • Mathematical psychics; an essay on the application of mathematics to the moral sciences - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • Papers Relating to Political Economy (Research and Source Ser.: No.493/ 3 Vols. in 1)

    ( Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845--1926) was one of the pr...)

  • Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • Mathematical Psychics Volume 10; An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences

    (This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)

  • Mathematical psychics; an essay on the application of mathematics to the moral sciences - Primary Source Edition

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences Vol: no~ 10 1881 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Vol:- no~ 10, Pages 166. Reprinted in 201...)

  • Mathematical psychics; an essay on the application of mathematics to the moral sciences 1881 Hardcover

    (Lang:- eng, Pages 172. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of...)

  • Mathematical psychics and other essays (Foundations of mathematical economics)

Membership

Clubs: Alpine, Athenaeum, Savile.

Interests

• Golf.