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…l time. In a way, I could also credit it to the period of production theorists John Rae, Nassau Senior, William Stanley Jevons and Eugen von Boehm Bawerk. They need only to have considered human and total capital as explained by Petty two centuries before. Forward By The Author 0...

…heory I also treat rate of return. This combined free growth theory with insights of Petty in 1662 and William Stanley Jevons in 1871. Petty’s idea was that each generation passes the baton to the next. Our investment horizon is the generation length. Its reciprocal, or one over...

…line in 1836. Rae’s book itself found few readers, despite its warm endorsement by Mill in his own magnus opus of 1848. Jevons adopted the idea from Senior in 1871, and Boehm Bawerk from Senior and Jevons in his book of 1889. Boehm Bawerk soon learned of Rae’s work, and dedicated...

Jevons and Boehm Bawerk all got nowhere because they modeled physical

…l time. In a way, I could also credit it to the period of production theorists John Rae, Nassau Senior, William Stanley Jevons and Eugen von Boehm Bawerk. They need only to have considered human and total capital as explained by Petty two centuries before. Forward By The Author...

…A New Approach to the Y Rule The marginalist tradition, which has dominated economic thought since its introduction by Jevons and Menger in 1871, has treated all consumption as the end point exhausting capital in satisfying tastes. It doesn’t follow that marginalists were unawar...

… his Outline of 1836. The biological imperative lapsed from attention when the first generation of marginalists, led by Jevons and Menger, with Walras soon to follow, thought it unscientific to explain or justify tastes. It reemerged a century later in bioeconomics, much of which...