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BL
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1046067
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b800437
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Mandler, Michael.
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| Title & Author
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Dilemmas in economic theory : : persisting foundational problems of microeconomics /\ Michael Mandler.
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| Publication Statement
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New York ;Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 2001.
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1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0198026110
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: 1423745779
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: 160256731X
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: 9780198026112
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: 9781423745778
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: 9781602567313
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0195145755
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9780195145755
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| Notes
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Originally published: 1999.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction: The Transformation of Economic Theory; 2. Marginal Productivity and the Indeterminacy of Factor Prices; 3. The Prehistory of Distribution Theory: The Wage Fund and the Invention of Marginal Productivity; 4. The Ordinal Revolution; 5. Historical Issues in Preference Theory: Cardinality and the Transition to Ordinalism; 6. Paretian Welfare Economics; 7. A Positive Rate of Interest?; 8. Conclusion; References; Index.
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| Abstract
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By examining the development of economics in the 20th century, this book argues that the breakthroughs of post-World War II general equilibrium theory and its rejection of utilitarianism and marginal productivity have been misunderstood.
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Microeconomics.
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Value.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Microeconomics.
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Microeconomics.
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Value.
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Microeconomics.
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Value.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.521
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| LC Classification
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HB201.M363 2001eb
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| NLM classification
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F014. 31clc
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F015clc
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