Leon Walras (1834-1910) was one of the key thinkers behind the development of marginal utility theory and his introduction of general equilibrium theory is one of the cornerstones of modern economic thought. Now, his seminal work Etudes d'economie politique appliquee, first published in 1898, is available in English, in both hardback and paperback.

This work sits aside Elements d'economie politique pure (1874) and Etudes d'economie sociale (1896, English translation, Routledge 2010) as one of Walras' crowning achievements.

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Leon Walras (1834-1910) is one of the four or five most important economic theorists in the history of the science. The present book is a complete English translation of the second edition (1936) of his Etudes d'economie sociale (1896), in which he applies economic theory to real problems, presents the essence of his normative economic ideas, and reveals himself to have also been a great thinker on human nature, justice, mores, and the structure of scientific inquiry and knowledge. The book will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the area of the history of economics as...