Walras's Market Models

Walras''s Market Models describes and evaluates Lon Walras'' models of competitive markets. Through identification of his career phases and the associated general equilibrium models which are shown to be very different in character this book differs from previous examinations of his work. During his mature phase of theoretical activity Walras was concerned with a competitive economy that passes through a phase of disequilibrium in the production and sales of commodities. While in his last phase of theoretical activity he developed a model in which there is no production sales hiring consuming or saving until an assumed set of equilibrium prices obtains of the model.