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Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - A. A. Cournot

Pavel Sirůček

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(3):67-75 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.477

Cournot was a French mathematician, philosopher and economist, said to be one of the most important predecessors of neoclassical economic theory. He belongs among the pioneers in econometrics and mathematical economics. He is also highlighted for creation of market prices, the demand function and the basis for marginalist firm theory. He was unacknowledged in his lifetime.

Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - H. H. Gossen

Pavel Sirůček

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(2):68-76 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.471

H. H. Gossen was a Prussian court clerk, autodidact. He for the first time detected the marginal utility principles (three Gossen principles). At the time of his life he was unacknowledged, although he is the most important predecessor of neoclasic economic thought and marginalistict revolution.