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1 online resource (432 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in the History of Economics |
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Routledge studies in the history of economics.
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| Contents |
Cover; German Utility Theory; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: nineteenth-century German contributions to utility theory; 1 Basic concepts and principles of political economy; 2 Price determination through desire or demand; 3 Extract from the second letter to Adolphe Quételet; 4 The valuation of national wealth (1841); 5 Bases of price determination (1841); 6 The valuation of national wealth (1847); 7 The national economics of the present and future |
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8 The theory of value: for the jubilee of the Imperial University of Dorpat 12-13 December 1852 Commemorative volume of the department of history and philology9 The theory of value in national economics; 10 Value; 11 The ethical side of the theory of value in national economics; 12 The chapter on value; 13 On the theory of value; Index |
| Summary |
There is a standard belief that the modern theory of marginal utility originated in the UK with Jevons, Germany with Gossen, Austria with Menger and France with Walras. In this new book, John Chipman introduces new English translations of important writings from German economists such as Rau, Hildebrand, Roscher and Knies showing that the introduction of this concept originated with them. This ground breaking book comes with a long introduction from John Chipman analysing the theory |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134603848 |
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1134603843 |
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9781134603770 |
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1134603770 |
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