The article is devoted to the 150th anniversary of the Marginal Revolution and deals with ideological traditions which led to the works of William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, and Leon Walras. The British empiristic and utilitarian tradition which inspired Jevons, the German subjectivist tradition culminating in the work of Menger, and the French Cartesian tradition the traits of which can be spotted in Walras, evoked similar theories of value and price based on marginal utility. All three also contributed to the creation of exact economic science. However, the forms these theories took, as well as the policies they recommended were very different, and these differences could largely be explained by nationally specific sources.
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