"Almost everything that makes the Austrian school of economics distinctive was found in Menger—marginal utility, subjective value, emphasis on knowledge and foreknowledge, the importance of prices, spontaneous generation of societal institutions, and economic activity as a process occurring over time. From a more practical perspective, during the 1890s and early 1900s, he was the informal leader of a group of civil servants and academics who regularly met for coffee at Vienna’s famous coffeehouses to discuss the issues of the day."
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Alan Ebenstein, Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003), Ch. 3. The Austrian School of Economics
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Carl Menger
Carl Menger (February 23, 1840 – February 26, 1921) was an Austrian economist, known as founder of the . Menger contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility, which contested the cost-of-production theories of value, developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
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