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Marginalism (Hardcover)
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Marginalism (Hardcover)
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The notion of marginalism is central to modern economic theory. Its
emergence, in the 1870s, underpinned the change from classical
economics to modern (micro)economics, described by Schumpeter as a
"revolution". This book explores the origins of the concept, its
development and role in modern economics and shows why the
marginalist approach is much more than a set of mathematical rules.
The book examines how marginalism and its development of calculus
came about in a variety of different arenas, including as a
reaction to Ricardo's dominant theory of rents, in von Thunen's
location model, in the writings of German and French authors, both
within the mainstream and outside it, before going on to look in
detail at the work of Jevons, Walras and Menger, the economists
most closely associated with the marginal revolution. By exploring
the origins and development of the marginalist approach within the
history of economic thought, rather than seeking to explain it in
forbidding formal terms, the book is better able to show students
the wider importance of the marginalist approach in economic theory
and its far-reaching societal implications in terms of the
distribution of wages and capital. For anyone who has struggled
with the technicalities of microeconomic theory, this approach will
be warmly welcomed.
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