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marginalism Econ.|ˈmɑːdʒɪnəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. marginal a. + -ism.]
An economic analysis which gives prominence to marginal factors in the economy. Hence ˈmarginalist a., of or pertaining to marginalism; also n., an adherent of marginalism.
1926J. A. Hobson Free-Thought in Social Sci. iii. 118 The recent extension of Marginalism treats ‘doses’ as infinitesimal quantities, applies them to the demand as well as the supply side of the economic equation..and to all economic activities. Ibid. 119 Our modern Marginalists commit a..mistake in affecting to treat economic material in general as being..other than it actually is. 1929― Wealth & Life ii. iii. 119 The development of a marginalist doctrine, representing the movements of minutely divisible units of capital and labor into businesses and trades. 1951J. O. Kamm Econ. Investment ii. 33 (heading) Marginalism and investment policy. 1956R. F. Harrod in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 470 Such were the Austrian school of marginalists and their counterpart in England, Jevons. 1969P. Anderson in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 220 Alfred Marshall, father of marginalist economics. 1973K. Menger in Hicks & Weber Carl Menger iii. 38 Austrian marginalism and mathematical economics. Ibid., The Austrian marginalists and the mathematical economists agree in most of their fundamental economic views. |