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The Analysis of Linear Economic Systems Father Maurice Potron’s Pioneering Works

308 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations

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288 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations

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288 Pages

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Maurice Potron (1872-1942), a French Jesuit mathematician, constructed and analyzed a highly original, but virtually unknown economic model. This book presents translated versions of all his economic writings, preceded by a long introduction which sketches his life and environment based on extensive archival research and family documents. Potron had no education in economics and almost no... Read more

Foreword Paul Anthony Samuelson Church, Society and Economics: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Maurice Potron Christian Bidard and Guido Erreygers 1. Abstract of a study on just prices and wages 2. With regard to a mathematical contribution to the study of the problems of production and wages 3. Some properties of linear substitutions with coefficients ≥0 and their application to the problems of production and wages 4. Application to the problems of "sufficient production" and the "living wage" of some properties of linear substitutions with coefficients ≥0 5. Possibility and determination of the just price and the just wage 6. Mathematical contribution to the study of the problems of production and of wages 7. Relations between the question of unemployment and those of the just price and the just wage 8. Some properties of linear substitutions with coefficients ≥0 and their application to the problems of production and of wages 9. Mathematical contribution to the study of the equilibrium between production and consumption 10. The scientific organization of labour - The "Taylor system" 11. On some conditions of economic equilibrium. Letter of M. Potron (90) to R. Gibrat (22) 12. On the economic equilibria 13. Communication made at the Oslo Congress 14. The mathematical aspect of some economic problems in relation to some recent results of the theory of nonnegative matrices. Lectures given at the Catholic Institute of Paris 15. On nonnegative matrices 16. On nonnegative matrices and positive solutions to certain linear systems 17. Letter on industrial statistics Appendix I: Alfred Barriol, "Obituary. Maurice Potron (1872-1942)" Appendix II: Alfred Barriol, "[Report on] L.aspect mathématique de certains problèmes économiques" Appendix III: Michel Vittrant, "[Report on] Le problème de la manne des Hébreux" The Potron Bibliography