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- noun economics The use of marginal analysis to solve large classes of
microeconomic problems.
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Colin, Menger founded the Austrian school, setting forth its methodological approach with the debates with the German historical school and the development of marginalism in response to classical price theory.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Carl Menger Essay Prize for Undergrads: 2010
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But you can explain it with marginalism - mounts are high priced and low use value.
How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony 2010
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Colin, Menger founded the Austrian school, setting forth its methodological approach with the debates with the German historical school and the development of marginalism in response to classical price theory.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Carl Menger Essay Prize for Undergrads: 2010
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No, it looks like good old-fashioned marginalism and avoidance of the sunk-cost fallacy.
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No, it looks like good old-fashioned marginalism and avoidance of the sunk-cost fallacy.
The Beauty of Marginalism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In the emergent tradition, identified with “liberation” theology, certain aspects of marginalism are retained, while the residual tradition completely rejects marginalism.
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While marginalism effected a sweeping change in regulatory attitudes toward the corporation, the changes in the basic theory of corporate behavior, including finance, were at least as striking.
Archive 2008-06-01 Dan Ernst 2008
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While marginalism effected a sweeping change in regulatory attitudes toward the corporation, the changes in the basic theory of corporate behavior, including finance, were at least as striking.
Hovenkamp on The Marginalist Revolution in Corporate Finance: 1880-1965 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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No, it looks like good old-fashioned marginalism and avoidance of the sunk-cost fallacy.
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Which I think is wrong, but his defeatism and marginalism would be the true replay of 1972.
THE NEWS BLOG 2003
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