Carl Menger

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Carl Menger was an Austrian economist and founder of the Austrian School, best known for developing the theory of marginal utility and subjective value.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austrian School economist
economist
human
university teacher
countryOfCitizenship Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: "Austrian Empire"
dateOfBirth 1840-02-28
dateOfDeath 1921-02-26
educatedAt Charles University in Prague
Jagiellonian University
University of Vienna
employer University of Vienna
familyName Menger
fieldOfWork economics
microeconomics
political economy
value theory
givenName Carl
hasAcademicDiscipline marginal analysis
subjective value theory
influenced Austrian School of economics
surface form: "Austrian School economists"

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich von Wieser
Ludwig von Mises
influencedBy Aristotle
classical economics
knownFor founding the Austrian School of economics
methodological individualism in economics
subjective theory of value
theory of imputation
theory of marginal utility
languageOfWorkOrName German
movement Austrian School of economics
name Carl Menger
nativeLanguage German
notableIdea distinction between higher-order and lower-order goods
goods are valued according to marginal utility
value is subjective and based on individual preferences
notableWork Principles of Economics
originalTitleOfWork Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre
partOf marginal revolution in economics
placeOfBirth Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria NERFINISHED
Nowy Sącz NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Vienna
positionHeld professor of political economy
tutor to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria
publicationDate 1871
sexOrGender male

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