William Jaffé
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William Jaffé (1898-1980), an American economist and historian of economic thought, was associated with York University for the last ten years of his life as a professor in the Economics Department. Prior to his tenure at York, Jaffé had spent the period 1928-1966 at Northwestern University (Illinois), where he began his lifelong work on the French nineteenth-century economist, Léon Walras. He translated Walras’ ’The elements of pure economics,’ and edited three volumes of Walras correspondence.
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[edit] Honours
- Member of the French Legion of Honour
- Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science and Letters
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- Fellow of the British Academy.
- Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society
[edit] Publications
- Walras, Léon (1965). Correspondence of Léon Walras and related papers. Edited by William Jaffé. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
- Jaffé, William, and Donald A. Walker (ed.) (1983). Essays on Walras. Cambridge University Press.
[edit] Secondary source
- Hollander, Samuel (1981). "In Memoriam: William Jaffé, 1898 - 1980", CanJE, reprinted in Collected Essays/II The Literature of Political Economy (1998).
