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Carl Menger

1840–1921 · 19th century

Carl Menger was an Austrian economist whose Principles of Economics (1871) set out the theory of marginal utility, independently of William Stanley Jevons and Léon Walras. A professor at the University of Vienna and tutor to Crown Prince Rudolf, he founded the Austrian School of economics, later continued by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek.

Carl Menger
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