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| | The Neoclassicals: Introdution |
 | | The dating of this "revolution" is commonly ascribed to 1871-74, when the concept of diminishing marginal utility was introduced by William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Léon Walras, to pin down the character of demand -- thus the term "Marginalist". |
 | | The Neoclassical story is often captured in diagrammatic form by the idea that equilibrium prices and quantities of goods are determined jointly and simultaneously by the demand and supply for those goods. |
 | | The "Neoclassical" approach to economics, thus, is not one, great, well-defined theory, but rather can be regarded as a family of approaches -- all of which share the core 12 points mentioned earlier, but differ considerably on other topics such as macroeconomics, money, dynamics, mathematics, etc. Neoclassicism is thus a collection of schools of thought. |
| cepa.newschool.edu /het/essays/margrev/ncintro.htm (1366 words) |
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