The Retarded Acceptance of the Marginal Utility Theory

Name: The Retarded Acceptance of the Marginal Utility Theory
Author: Emil Kauder

1953

by Emil Kauder

Economic HistoryMarginal UtilityAdam SmithJohn Stuart MillLabor Theory of ValueSubjective ValueAnne-Robert-Jacques TurgotJohn LockeMax WeberPrice TheoryUtilitarianismUtilityAlfred MarshallCarl MengerClass StruggleHermann Heinrich GossenHistorical SchoolLeon WalrasMarxismWilliam Stanley JevonsClassical EconomicsDavid RicardoNassau Senior

Table of Contents · 6 segments

Front matter, article title, and contentsfront_matter

Introduction: The puzzle of delayed marginal utilityessay

I. Religious backgrounds and competing value theoriesessay

II. Work, social theology, and the labor-versus-utility value divideessay

III. Nineteenth-century explanations for delayed acceptanceessay

IV. Conclusion: Classical dominance, the historical school, and the 1870 breakthroughessay