Léon Walras

Léon Walras

professor
mathematician
economist
🇫🇷France
✝️Catholicism
School of Lausanne

Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras was a French mathematical economist and Georgist. He formulated the marginal theory of value and pioneered the development of general equilibrium theory. Walras is best known for his book Éléments d'économie politique pure, a work that has contributed greatly to the mathematization of economics through the concept of general equilibrium.

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Lifespan
1834 – 1910
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Born in
Évreux
Educated at
Mines ParisTech

Timeline

  • 1834

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    Birth
  • 1910

    Died

    Death

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