De geschiedenis van de economie 1871–1971. Een verslag

Summary

The year 1971 was a year of commemoration of the birth of the socalled Marginal Utility Economics. The author refers to the conferences held at Lausanne (Switzerland), Vienna (Austria), and Bellagio (Italy), which were devoted to Walras, Menger, and the Marginal Revolution in Economics, respectively. He then proceeds with an extensive report on the conference held at Manchester (England), which was partly devoted to Jevons. By all this the author wants to demonstrate that notwithstanding the doubt that has been expressed as to the (educational) relevance of the study of the history of economic thought the blood of scholarship is thicker than the water of scepticism.

The article has appendices on the Paradox of Value and John Macdonell.