Peirce's Economic Model in the First Harvard Lecture on Pragmatism.
Economics is one of the disciplines of inquiry that interested C. S. Peirce throughout his life. As is well known, Peirce dabbled in mathematical economics in the 1870s. In 1903 Peirce offered one more instance of a mathematical economic model in his Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism. A model of the pr...
| Publicado en: | Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 548 - 581 |
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