walrasian

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

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Of or pertaining to the theories of the 19th-century French economist Léon Walras.

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"a Walrasian auction"
"The economy is thus in a kind of non-Walrasian equilibrium in which wage rates are correctly guessed. But they are never truly known as in the Walrasian world; a change of some island’s wage would not be immediately learned."

Etymology tree French Walras Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Walrasian From French Walras + English -ian.

more Walrasian (comparative) most Walrasian (superlative)

non-Walrasian Walras' law

Walras' law

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What does walrasian mean?

Of or pertaining to the theories of the 19th-century French economist Léon Walras.

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