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Carl Menger (/ˈmɛŋɡər/; German: [ˈmɛŋɐ]; February 23, 1840 – February 26, 1921) was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics. Menger contributed to the development of the theory of marginalism (marginal utility), which rejected the cost-of-production theories of value, such as were developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Menger used his “Subjective Theory of Value” to arrive at what he considered one of the most powerful insights in economics: both sides gain from exchange.

Main Works

Année	Original name	English translation
1871	Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre	Principles of economics
1883	Untersuchungen über die Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der politischen Oekonomie insbesondere	Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences with Special Reference to Economics
1884	Die Irrthümer des Historismus in der deutschen Nationalökonomie	The Errors of Historicism in German Economics
1888	Zur Theorie des Kapitals	The Theory of Capital
1889	Grundzüge einer Klassifikation der Wirtschaftswissenschaften	Principles of a Classification of the Theories on Economics
1892	On the Origins of Money
1923 (posth.)	Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre	Principles of economics

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