Carl Menger

Tags: Economist.

Carl Menger (German: [ˈmɛŋɐ]; February 23 1840 – February 26 1921) was the founder of the Austrian School of economics. Menger contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility which contested the cost-of-production theories of value developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo.

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birth date

1840-02-23

birth place

Nowy Sącz, Austrian Empire

death date

1921-02-26

death place

Vienna, First Austrian Republic

depiction description (caption)

Carl Menger founder of the Austrian School

field

Economics

influenced

Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Ludwig Lachmann, Ludwig von Mises, Henry Ludwell Moore

influenced by

Adam Smith, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Franz Brentano

LCCN Id

n/80/132076

nationality

Austria