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I had never looked into the differences between each of the three original Marginalists.

Walras is well known for general equilibrium, so that part made sense, and obviously I know that the Austrian tradition is downstream of Menger, but I didn’t know much about Jevons.

he's pretty cool, and obvs important for the British tradition (and the Coal Question/Jevons Paradox), and pushes the economics discipline -- in the most important country, at its most important time -- in certain direction.

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He seems to be the most important of the three, in terms of how the profession developed.

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