Leon Walras: The Pure Scientist versus the Social Reformer

Abstract

As in the case of Karl Marx where the scientist (thinker in equilibrium terms) must be separated from the revolutionary (man of action, thinker in disequilibrium terms), this article, using the same equilibrium versus disequilibrium approach, advances the thesis that there are also two Walrases — the pure scientist (theoretician) and the social reformer (a man of action). There is sufficient evidence to accept the hypothesis of two Walrases and this in turn helps to explain a number of ideas which otherwise appear as contradictions.

Citation

Rugina, A.N. (1982), "Leon Walras: The Pure Scientist versus the Social Reformer", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 3-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013915