Marginal Revolution in Economics: A Reappraisal

This volume is devoted to a reappraisal of the Marginal Revolution on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.

The year 1871 should be remembered as one of the most important turning points in the history of economics. W. S. Jevons, C. Menger, and L. Walras published epochal works at the very beginning of the 1870s. Although these works were written independently, they shared a common mathematical structure based on classical analysis. For this reason, the emergence of the trio is called the ...