Editing Léon Walras

{{Short description|French mathematical economist (1834–1910)}}
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{{Infobox economist
| name             = Léon Walras
| image            = Portrait of Léon Walras 1862 extract.png
| caption          = Walras in 1862 (age 27)
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1834|12|16|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Évreux]], [[Upper Normandy]], France
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|1910|1|5|1834|12|16|df=y}}
| death_place      = Clarens, now part of [[Montreux]], Switzerland
| alma_mater       = [[Mines ParisTech|École des Mines de Paris]]
| school_tradition = [[Lausanne School]]<br>[[Marginalism]]
| field            = [[Economics]]<br>[[Microeconomics]]
| influences        = {{hlist|[[Augustin Cournot]]|[[Étienne Vacherot]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Jaffé|first=William|author-link=William Jaffé|date=1965|title=Correspondence of Leon Walras and Related Papers|location=Amsterdam: North Holland|section=128|volume=1}}</ref>|[[rationalism]]|[[Adam Smith]]|[[Jean Baptiste Say]]}}
| contributions    = [[Marginal utility]]<br>[[General equilibrium]]<br>[[Walras's law]]<br>[[Walrasian auction]]
}}
'''Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras''' ({{IPA|fr|valʁas|lang}};<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 29793129|title = Marie Esprit Léon Walras|journal = Indian Economic Review|volume = 4|issue = 1|pages = 6–17|last1 = Singh|first1 = H. K. Manmohan|year = 1958}}</ref> 16 December 1834 – 5 January 1910) was a French [[mathematical economics|mathematical economist]] and [[Georgist]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cirillo|first=Renato|title=Léon Walras and Social Justice|journal=The American Journal of Economics and Sociology|date=Jan 1984|volume= 43|issue= 1|pages=53–60|doi=10.1111/j.1536-7150.1984.tb02222.x|jstor=3486394}}</ref> He formulated the [[Marginalism|marginal theory of value]] (independently of [[William Stanley Jevons]] and [[Carl Menger]]) and pioneered the development of [[general equilibrium theory]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hicks |first=J. R. |date=1934 |title=Léon Walras |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1907106 |journal=Econometrica |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=338–348 |doi=10.2307/1907106 |issn=0012-9682}}</ref> Walras is best known for his book ''Éléments d'économie politique pure'', a work that has contributed greatly to the mathematization of economics through the concept of general equilibrium.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Friedman |first=Milton |date=1955 |title=Leon Walras and His Economic System |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1821386 |journal=The American Economic Review |volume=45 |issue=5 |pages=900–909 |issn=0002-8282}}</ref> The definition of the role of the entrepreneur found in it was also taken up and amplified by [[Joseph Schumpeter]].
 
For Walras, exchanges only take place after a Walrasian ''[[tâtonnement]]'' (French for "trial and error"), guided by the auctioneer, has made it possible to reach market equilibrium. It was the general equilibrium obtained from a single hypothesis, rarity, that led Joseph Schumpeter to consider him "the greatest of all economists". The notion of general equilibrium was very quickly adopted by major economists such as [[Vilfredo Pareto]], [[Knut Wicksell]] and [[Gustav Cassel]]. [[John Hicks]] and [[Paul Samuelson]] used the Walrasian contribution in the elaboration of the neoclassical synthesis. For their part, [[Kenneth Arrow]] and [[Gérard Debreu]], from the perspective of a logician and a mathematician, determined the conditions necessary for equilibrium.

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==Biography==
Walras was the son of a French school administrator [[Auguste Walras]]. His father was not a professional economist, yet his economic thinking had a profound effect on his son. He found the value of goods by setting their scarcity relative to human wants.

Walras enrolled in the [[Mines ParisTech|École des Mines de Paris]], but grew tired of engineering. He worked as a bank manager, journalist, romantic novelist and railway clerk before turning to economics.<ref name="Economyths">''[[Economyths]]'' (2010) by [[David Orrell]], p. 54</ref> Walras received an appointment as the professor of political economy at the University of Lausanne.

Walras also inherited his father's interest in [[social reform]]. Much like the [[Fabians]], Walras called for the [[nationalization]] of land, believing that land's productivity would always increase and that rents from that land would be sufficient to support the nation without taxes. He also asserted that all other taxes (i.e. on goods, labor, capital) eventually realize effects exactly identical to a [[consumption tax]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Walras|first=Léon|title=Elements of Pure Economics; or, The Theory of Social Wealth. Translated by William Jaffé.|year=1969|publisher=A. M. Kelly|location=New York|page=457,458}}</ref> so they can hurt the economy (unlike a land tax).

Another of Walras's influences was [[Augustin Cournot]], a former schoolmate of his father. Through Cournot, Walras came under the influence of [[rationalism]] and was introduced to the use of mathematics in economics. He later motivated his use of mathematics with the analogy that the pure theory of economics is “a physico-mathematical science like mechanics”<ref>{{cite book |last=Walras |first=Léon |date=1874 |title=Eléments d’économie politique pure ou théorie de la richesse sociale |location=Lausanne/Paris |publisher=Corbaz & Cie |page=71}}</ref> and argued that the way economics proceeds is rigorously identical to the one of [[Classical mechanics|rational]] and [[celestial mechanics]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Walras |first1=Léon |date=1960 |title= Économique et méchanique |journal= Metroeconomica|volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=3–11 |doi= 10.1111/j.1467-999X.1960.tb00510.x |quote-page=5 |quote = sa manière de procéder est rigoureusement identique à celle de deux sciences physico-mathématiques des plus avancées et des plus incontestées: la ''mécanique rationelle'' et la ''mécanique céleste''. }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Glötzl |first1=Erhard |last2=Richters |first2=Oliver |title=From constrained optimization to constrained dynamics: extending analogies between economics and mechanics |journal=Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination |volume=14 |pages=623–642 |date=2019 |doi=10.1007/s11403-019-00252-7|hdl=10419/171974 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Mirowski |first1=P. |last2=Cook |first2=P |date=1990 |chapter= Walras’ “Economics and Mechanics”: Translation, Commentary, Context | title=Economics As Discourse |editor-last1=Samuels |editor-first1=W.J. |publisher=Springer |location=Dordrecht |doi=10.1007/978-94-017-1377-1_7}}</ref>

As Professor of [[Political Economy]] at the [[University of Lausanne]], Walras is credited with founding the [[Lausanne school]] of economics, along with his successor [[Vilfredo Pareto]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Marie-Ésprit Léon Walras, 1834–1910 |publisher=The New School, The History of Economic Thought Website |url=http://homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/walras.htm |access-date=2010-12-30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106050650/http://homepage.newschool.edu/het/profiles/walras.htm |archive-date=January 6, 2011 }}</ref>

Because most of Walras's publications were only available in French, many economists were unfamiliar with his work. This changed in 1954 with the publication of William Jaffé's English translation of Walras's ''Éléments d'économie politique pure''.<ref name="William Jaffé, Historian of Economic Thought, 1898-1980">{{cite journal | jstor= 1803482 | title= William Jaffé, Historian of Economic Thought, 1898–1980 |author= Walker, Donald A. |journal= The American Economic Review |date= December 1981 |volume=71 |issue=5 | pages= 1012–19}}</ref> Walras's work was also too mathematically complex for many contemporary readers of his time. On the other hand, it has a great insight into the market process under idealized conditions so it has been far more read in the modern era.

Although Walras came to be regarded as one of the three leaders of the [[Marginalism|marginalist]] revolution,<ref>Sandmo, Agnar (2011). ''Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought'', Princeton University Press: Princeton, p. 190</ref>
he was not familiar with the two other leading figures of marginalism, [[William Stanley Jevons]] and [[Carl Menger]], and developed his theories independently. ''Elements'' has Walras disagreeing with Jevons on the applicability, while the findings adopted by Carl Menger, he says, are completely in alignment with the ideas present in the book (even though expressed non-mathematically).<ref>{{cite book|last=Walras|first=Léon|title=Elements of Pure Economics; or, The Theory of Social Wealth. Translated by William Jaffé.|year=1969|publisher=A. M. Kelly|location=New York|page=204}}</ref>

==Main ideas==
{{see also|Walras's law|General equilibrium theory|Walrasian auction}}

=== Walras's law ===
[[Walras's law]] implies that the sum of the values of excess demands across all markets must equal zero, whether or not the economy is in a general equilibrium. This implies that if positive excess demand exists in one market, negative excess demand must exist in some other market. Thus, if all markets but one are in equilibrium, then that last market must also be in equilibrium.

===General equilibrium theory===
In 1874 and 1877 Walras published the work that led him to be considered the father of the [[general equilibrium theory]], ''Éléments d'économie politique pure'' [see [[Léon Walras#Major works|next section]] for bibliographical details].

His main goal was to solve a problem presented by [[A. A. Cournot]]: Does a general equilibrium exist? Though it had been demonstrated that prices would equate [[supply and demand]] to [[Market clearing|clear]] individual markets ("partial equilibrium"), it was unclear that an equilibrium existed for all markets simultaneously ("general equilibrium").

While teaching at the Lausanne Academy, Walras began constructing a mathematical model that assumes a "regime of perfectly free competition", in which productive factors, products, and prices automatically adjust in equilibrium. Walras began with the theory of exchange in 1873 and proceeded to map out his theories of production, capitalization and money in his first edition.

His theory of exchange began with an expansion of Cournot's demand curve to include more than two commodities, also realizing the value of the quantity sold must equal the quantity purchased thus the ratio of prices must be equal to the inverse ratio of quantities. Walras then drew a supply curve from the demand curve and set equilibrium prices at the intersection. His model could now determine prices of commodities but only the relative price. In order to deduce the absolute price, Walras could choose one price to serve as the ''[[Numéraire|numeraire]]'', such that all other prices are measured in units of this commodity. Using the numeraire, he determined that [[marginal utility]] [''rareté''] divided by the price must be equal for all commodities.

Then he argued that, because each individual consumer consumes as much value as the value of that individual's stock of goods, the value of total sales equals the value of total purchase. That is, Walras's law holds.

Walras then expanded the theory to include production with the assumption of an existence of fixed coefficients in said production making possible a generalization that the marginal productivity of the factors of production varied with the amount of input, making factor substitution possible.

Walras constructed his basic theory of general equilibrium by beginning with simple equations and then increasing the complexity in the next equations. He began with a two-person bartering system, then moved on to the derivation of downward-sloping consumer demands. Next he moved on to exchanges involving multiple parties, and finally ended with credit and money.

Walras wrote down four sets of equations:

* the quantity of goods demanded;
* relating the prices of goods to their costs of production;
* the quantities of inputs supplied;
* the quantities of inputs demanded.

There are four sets of variables to solve for:

* the price of each good;
* the quantity of each good sold;
* the price of each factor of production;
* the quantity of each of those factor bought by businesses.

To simplify matters, Walras added one further equation (the Walras's law equation), requiring that all the money received must be spent, one way or the other.

By Walras's law, any particular market must be in equilibrium if all other markets in an economy are also in equilibrium, because the excess market demands sum to zero. Thus, in an economy with n markets, it is sufficient to solve n-1 simultaneous equations for market clearing. Taking one good as the numéraire in terms of which prices are specified, the economy has n-1 unknown prices that can be determined by the n-1 simultaneous equations, he thus concluded that the general equilibrium exists.<ref name="50-Walras">Pressman, Steven. ''Fifty Major Economists''. "Léon Walras (1834-1910)." 2nd ed., Routledge, 2006.</ref>

Though this argument works when all equations are linear, it does not hold when the equations are nonlinear. It is easy to construct a pairs of equations in two variables with no solutions. [[Arrow–Debreu model|A more rigorous version]] of the argument was developed independently by [[Lionel McKenzie]] and the pair [[Kenneth Arrow]] and [[Gérard Debreu]] in the 1950s.

=== Walrasian auction ===
The [[Walrasian auction]] is a type of simultaneous auction where each agent calculates its demand for the good at every possible price and submits this to an auctioneer. The price is then set so that the total demand across all agents equals the total amount of the good. Thus, a Walrasian auction perfectly matches the supply and the demand. Walras suggests that equilibrium will be achieved through a process of ''tâtonnement'' (French for "trial and error"), a form of incremental hill climbing.

=== Economic value definition of utility ===

Léon Walras provides a definition of economic utility based on economic value as opposed to an ethical theory of value:

<blockquote>I state that things are useful as soon as they may serve whatever usage, as soon as they match whatever need and allow its fulfillment. Thus, there is here no point to deal with 'nuances' by way of which one classes, in the language of everyday conversation, utility beside what is pleasant and between the necessary and the superfluous. Necessary, useful, pleasant and superfluous, all of this is, for us, more or less useful. There is here as well no need to take into account the morality or immorality of the need that the useful things matches and permits to fulfill. Whether a substance is searched for by a doctor to heal an ill person, or by an assassin to poison his family, this is an important question from other points of view, albeit totally indifferent from ours. The substance is useful, for us, in both cases, and may well be more useful in the second case than in the first one.{{efn|« Je dis que les choses sont utiles dès qu'elles peuvent servir à un usage quelconque, dès qu'elles répondent à un besoin quelconque et en permettent la satisfaction. Ainsi, il n'y a pas à s'occuper ici des nuances par lesquelles on classe, dans le langage de la conversation courante, l'utilité à côté de l'agréable entre le nécessaire et le superflu. Nécessaire, utile, agréable et superflu, tout cela, pour nous, est plus ou moins utile. Il n'y a pas davantage à tenir compte ici de la moralité ou de l'immoralité du besoin auquel répond la chose utile et qu'elle permet de satisfaire. Qu'une substance soit recherchée par un médecin pour guérir un malade ou pour un assassin pour empoisonner sa famille, c'est une question très importante à d'autres points de vue, mais tout à fait indifférente au nôtre. La substance est utile, pour nous, dans les deux cas, et peut l'être plus dans le second que dans le premier. » ''Elements d'économie pure, ou théorie de la richesse sociale'', 1874}}</blockquote>

In economic theories of value, the term "value" is unrelated to any notions of value used in ethics, they are homonyms.

==Legacy==
[[File:GraveAlineAndLeonWalras-CimetiereClarensVD RomanDeckert29022024.jpg|thumb|The grave of Walras and his daughter Marie Aline (1869–1942) at the cemetery of [[Clarens, Switzerland|Clarens]] in the Swiss canton of Vaud. ]]

In 1941 [[George Stigler]]<ref>Stigler, George, 1994 [1941], ''Production and Distribution Theories'', New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, p. 222.</ref> wrote about Walras: {{blockquote|There is no general history of economic thought in English which devotes more than passing reference to his work. ... This sort of empty fame in English-speaking countries is of course attributable in large part to Walras's use of his mother tongue, French, and his depressing array of mathematical formulas.}} What caused the re-appraisal of Walras's consideration in the US, was the influx of German-speaking scientists – the German version of his ''Théorie Mathématique de la Richesse Sociale'' was published in 1881.<ref>{{cite book|first=Léon|last=Walras|language=de|title=Mathematische Theorie der Preisbestimmung der wirtschaftlichen Güter. Vier Denkschriften gelesen vor der Akademie der moralischen und politischen Wissenschaften zu Paris und vor der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft des Waadt-Landes zu Lausanne.|location=Stuttgart|publisher=Verlag von Ferdinand Enke|year=1881}}</ref>

According to [[Schumpeter]]:<ref>Schumpeter, J. A., 1994 [1954], ''History of Economic Analysis'', Oxford University Press, p. 795</ref>{{blockquote|Walras is ... greatest of all economists. His system of economic equilibrium, uniting, as it does, the quality of 'revolutionary' creativeness with the quality of classic synthesis, is the only work by an economist that will stand comparison with the achievements of theoretical physics.}}

==Major works==
===''Éléments d'Économie Politique Pure''===
[[File:Éléments d’Économie Politique Pure.gif|thumb|Éléments d’Économie Politique Pure]]
The ''Éléments'' of 1874/1877 are the work by which Léon Walras is best known. The full title is 
* Éléments d'Économie Politique Pure, ou Théorie de la richesse sociale.
The [[half title]] page uses only the title ('Éléments d'Économie Politique Pure') whereas inside the body (e.g. p.&nbsp;1 and the contents page) the subtitle ('Théorie de la richesse sociale') is used as if it were the title.

====Plan of work====
The work was issued in two instalments (''fascicules'') in separate years. It was intended as the first of three parts of a systematic treatise as follows:
* 1<sup>re</sup> partie:– Éléments d'Économie Politique Pure, ou Théorie de la richesse sociale.
** Section I. Objet et divisions de l'économie politique et sociale.
** Section II. Théorie mathématique de l'échange.
** Section III. Du numéraire et de la monnaie.
** Section IV. Théorie naturelle de la production et de la consommation de la richesse.
** Section V. Conditions et conséquences du progrès économique.
** Section VI. Effets naturels et nécessaires des divers modes d'organisation économique de la société.
* 2<sup>e</sup> partie:– Éléments d'Économie Politique Appliquée, ou Théorie de la production agricole, industrielle et commerciale de la richesse.
* 3<sup>e</sup> partie:– Éléments d'Économie Sociale, ou Théorie de la répartition de la richesse par la propriété et l'impôt.<ref>Walras, 'Éléments', first ed., p.&nbsp;vi.</ref>
Works with titles echoing those proposed for Parts II and III were published in 1898 and 1896. They are included in the list of other works below.

====Editions====
* ''First'' (1874/1877). Most readily available. Described by Walker and van Daal as a 'brilliant expression of pure originality, containing many theoretical innovations' which 'needed alteration and development in a variety of important respects'.<ref>Donald A. Walker and Jan van Daal, translators' introduction to the 2014 translation. Available in part online as https://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/64133/frontmatter/9781107064133_frontmatter.pdf.</ref>
* ''Second'' (1889). Revised, corrected and enlarged.
* ''Third'' (1896). A minor revision with new appendices. This is considered the best edition by Walker and van Daal.
* ''Fourth'' (1900). Revised and extended. According to Walker and van Daal, 'these changes resulted in an incomplete, internally contradictory, and occasionally incoherent text'.
* ''Fifth'' (1926). Posthumous; published by his daughter Aline. 'Édition définitive, revue et augmentée'.<ref>W.Hildenbrand and A. P. Kirman, 'Equilibrium Analysis' (1988).</ref> Follows the fourth.

====Derived work====
The 'Théorie Mathématique de la Richesse Sociale' included in the list of other works (below) is described by the National Library of Australia as 'a series of lectures and articles that together summarize the mathematical elements of the author's ''Élements''&nbsp;'.<ref>Catalogue record at https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2018624.</ref>

====English Translations====
* William Jaffé (1954) of the ''fifth'' edition as ''Elements of Pure Economics''.
* Donald A. Walker and Jan van Daal (2014) of the ''third'' edition as ''Elements of Theoretical Economics''.
Walker and van Daal describe Jaffé's translation of the word ''crieur'' as 'a momentous error that has misled generations of readers'.

====Online and facsimile editions====
* Online: {{cite book |last1=Walras |first1=Léon |title=Éléments D'économie Politique Pure, Ou, Théorie De La Richesse |date=1874 |publisher=L. Corbaz & cie; [etc ., etc.] |url=https://archive.org/details/lmentsdconomiep01walrgoog |access-date=17 August 2018 |language=fr}}
* Facsimile: cheap photographic reprints are produced by {{mono|facsimilepublisher.com}}.
Both of these are made from the ''first'' edition and are defective in respect of illustrations. The original figures were included as folding plates (presumably at the end of each ''fascicule''). The online edition contains only Figs. 3, 4, 10, and 12 whereas the facsimile contains only Figs. 5 and 6.

===Other works===
* ''Francis Saveur'', 1858.
* "De la propriété intellectuelle", 1859, ''Journal des économistes''.
* {{cite book |last1=Walras |first1=Léon |title=L'économie Politique Et La Justice: Examen Critique Et Réfutation Des Doctrines Économiques De P.j. Proudhon, Précédés D'un Introduction À L'étude De La Question Sociale |date=1860 |publisher=Guillaumin |location=Paris |url=https://archive.org/details/lconomiepolitiq00walrgoog |access-date=17 August 2018 |language=fr}}
* "Paradoxes économiques I", 1860, ''Journal des économistes''.
* "Théorie critique de l'impôt", 1861.
* ''De l'impôt dans le Canton de Vaud'', 1861.
* {{cite book |last1=Walras |first1=Léon |title=Les associations populaires de consommation, de production et de crédit |date=1865 |publisher=Dentu |location=Paris |url=https://archive.org/details/lesassociations00walrgoog |access-date=17 August 2018 |language=fr}}
* "La bourse et le crédit", 1867, ''Paris Guide''.
* {{cite book |last1=Walras |title=Recherche de l'idéal social: leçons publiques faites à Paris |date=1868 |publisher=Guillaumin |location=Paris |url=https://archive.org/details/recherchedelida00walrgoog |access-date=17 August 2018 |language=fr}}
* "Correspondance entre M. Jevons, professeur a Manchester, et M. Walras, professeur a Lausanne", 1874, ''Journal des économistes''.
* {{cite book |last1=Walras |first1=Léon |title=De la fixité de valeur de l'étalon monétaire |date=1882 |location=Paris |url=https://archive.org/details/delafixitdevale00walrgoog |access-date=17 August 2018 |language=fr}}
* "Un nuovo ramo della matematica. Dell' applicazione delle matematiche all' economia politica", 1876, ''Giornale degli economisti''.
* ''Théorie mathématique de la richesse sociale'', 1883.
* "Notice autobiographique de Léon Walras", 1893.
* ''Études d'économie sociale; Théorie de la répartition de la richesse sociale'', 1896.
* ''Études d'économie politique appliquée; Théorie de la production de la richesse sociale'', 1898.
* "Théorie du crédit", 1898, ''Revue d'économie politique''.
* "Sur les équations de la circulation", 1899, ''Giornale degli economisti''
* "Cournot et l'Économique Mathématique", 1905, ''Gazette de Lausanne''.
* "La Paix par la Justice Sociale et le Libre Échange", 1907, ''Questions Pratiques de Legislation Ouvrière''.
* ''L'état et le chemin de fer'' (1875).
* "Leone Walras, Autobiografia", 1908, ''Giornale degli Economist''i.
* "Un initiateur en économie politique, A.A. Walras", 1908, ''La Revue du Mois''.
* "Économique et méchanique", 1909, ''Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise de Sciences Naturelles''
* ''Correspondence of Léon Walras and related papers'' (ed. by William Jaffé, 3 vols.), 1965.

==See also==
* [[:fr:Léon Walras|Leon Walras at Wikipedia France]]
* [[Walras's law]]
* [[Walrasian auction]]
* [[General equilibrium]]
* [[Cost the limit of price]]
* [[Progressive theory of capital]]

==Note==
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* Jaffé, William, and Donald A. Walker (ed.) (1983). ''Essays on Walras''. Cambridge University Press.
* Morishima, Michio (1977). ''Walras' economics : a pure theory of capital and money''. Cambridge University Press.
* Medema S.G. & Samuels W.J. (2003). "The history of economic thought: a reader" Routledge, London and New York.

==External links==
{{Wikiquote}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051025052836/http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/walras.htm Biography and major works]
* {{Cite encyclopedia |title=Leon Walras (1834–1910) |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Walras.html |encyclopedia=[[The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics]] |edition=2nd |series=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |publisher=[[Liberty Fund]] |year=2008 }}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname= Léon Walras}}

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