My last several posts have been focused on Marshall and Walras and the relationships and differences between the partial equilibrium approach of Marshall and the general-equilibrium approach of Walras and how that current state of neoclassical economics is divided between the more practical applied approach of Marshallian partial-equilibrium analysis and the more theoretical general-equilibrium approach of Walras. The divide is particularly important for the history of macroeconomics, because many of the macroeconomic controversies in the decades since Keynes have also involved differences between Marshallians and Walrasians. I’m not happy with either the Marshallian or Walrasian approach, and I have been trying to articulate my unhappiness with both branches of current neoclassical thinking by going back to the work of the forgotten marginal revolutionary, Carl Menger. I’ve been writing a paper for a conference later this month celebrating the 150th anniversary of Menger’s great work which draws on some of my…
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