caa a22 4500 388040602 CHVBK 20180307125020.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1053837200001589 doi S1053837200001589 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1053837200001589 Costa Manuel Luís Walras and the NeoWalrasian Diversion [Elektronische Daten] [Manuel Luís Costa] This paper addresses the question: How did the promising program set out in Leon Walras' mature writings come to be taken as laying the ground for a totally different line of problems in his later writings and in modern microeconomic theory? The study of Walras' mature work (see Walker, 1996) offers an instructive object lesson in the way in which an interesting line of enquiry leads gradually to analytical difficulties and then to "solutions” that evade issues and constitute a major diversion of analysis down roads not initially contemplated by its originator. This paper attempts to trace the development of that detour from the main road of economic analysis in Walras' mature work to the side road of abstract exercises in contemporary neowalrasian literature. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Journal of the History of Economic Thought Cambridge University Press 20/1(1998-03), 51-69 1053-8372 20:1<51 1998 20 HET https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837200001589 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837200001589 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Costa Manuel Luís NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the History of Economic Thought Cambridge University Press 20/1(1998-03), 51-69 1053-8372 20:1<51 1998 20 HET CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge