Léon Walras

Tags: Economist.

Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (French: [valʁas]; December 16 1834 – January 5 1910) was a French mathematical economist. He formulated the marginal theory of value (independently of William Stanley Jevons and Carl Menger) and pioneered the development of general equilibrium theory.

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birth date

1834-12-16

birth place

Évreux, Upper Normandy

death date

1910-01-05

death place

Montreux

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Léon Walras

field

Economics, Marginalism

influenced

Joseph Schumpeter, Maurice Allais, Wassily Leontief, Gérard Debreu, Alfred Marshall, Vilfredo Pareto, Oskar R. Lange, Knut Wicksell, Henry Ludwell Moore, Gustav Cassel

influenced by

Philosophes, Antoine Augustin Cournot