Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics: Dupuit and the Engineers

by Robert F. Hebert and Robert B. Ekelund Jr.

How did contemporary microeconomic theory emerge? Who were its chief architects? Conventional wisdom points largely to the work of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) and his colleagues in England in the late nineteenth century. In this highly original and important contribution to the history of economic thought, Robert Ekelund and Robert H bert convincingly argue that the intellectual tradition of microeconomic inquiry was initiated by members of the Corps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226199991
• ISBN13: 9780226199993
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"