Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015, 23(2):68-76 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.471

Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - H. H. Gossen

Pavel Sirůček
Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, Fakulta podnikohospodářská (e-mail: sirucek@vse.cz).

H. H. Gossen was a Prussian court clerk, autodidact. He for the first time detected the marginal utility principles (three Gossen principles). At the time of his life he was unacknowledged, although he is the most important predecessor of neoclasic economic thought and marginalistict revolution.

Keywords: H. H. Gossen, predecessors of neoclassical economics, theory of marginal utility, marginalist revolution
JEL classification: B11, D00, D46

Published: April 1, 2015  Show citation

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Sirůček, P. (2015). Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - H. H. Gossen. Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 23(2), 68-76. doi: 10.18267/j.aop.471
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