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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (* 8. Februar 1845 in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Irland; † 13. Februar 1926 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) war ein irischer Ökonom. Edgeworth vertrat die Idee der Progressivsteuer, die er – wie auch Arthur Cecil Pigou – mit dem sinkenden Grenznutzen des Einkommens begründete.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. Quick Info. Born. 8 February 1845. Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland. Died. 13 February 1926. Oxford, England. Summary. Francis Edgeworth was an Irish-born statistician who examined correlation and methods of estimating correlation coefficients in a series of papers. View three larger pictures. Biography.
1. Jan. 2017 · Edgeworth was a major figure in the development of neoclassical economics, and one of its most original theorists, making a wide range of lasting contributions. After describing his approach to economics, this article discusses his early work in moral philosophy,...
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Learn about Edgeworth, a professor at King’s College London and a friend of Jevons, who developed the indifference curve and contributed to mathematical statistics. Find out where he lived and walked with Jevons on Hampstead Heath.
In his “Mathematical Psychics: an Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences”, published in 1881, Edgeworth designed what is now known as an Edgeworth box, which basically allows us to compare two mathematical functions represented as curves using the same axis.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (born February 8, 1845, Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland—died February 13, 1926, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was an Irish economist and statistician who innovatively applied mathematics to the fields of economics and statistics.
