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Léon Walras

Born on December 16, 1834

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Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras (French:; 16 December 1834 – 5 January 1910) was a French mathematical economist and Georgist. He formulated the marginal theory of value (independently of William Stanley Jevons and Carl Menger) and pioneered the development of general equilibrium theory.

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