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How Wealth Is Ordered
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The Theory of Political Economy

Foundational Marginalist Economics Text, 1871

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William Stanley Jevons's 1871 treatise, one of three works that independently launched the marginalist revolution alongside Carl Menger's Principles of Economics and Leon Walras's Elements of Pure Economics, arguing that value derives from marginal utility rather than embodied labor.

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