Secret Origins of Modern Microeconomics

Preface
1. The Protohistory of Microeconomics
2. The Sociology of Economics in Nineteenth-Century France
3. The Calculators
4. The Breakthrough in Utility and Demand Theory
5. Refinements of Utility and Demand Theory
6. Costs, Quality, Entrepreneurship, and Competitive Market Adjustments
7. Monopoly and Marginal Cost Pricing
8. Price Discrimination 1: Origins of Static Neoclassical Theory
9. Pride Discrimination 2: Self-Selection and Second-Degree Discrimination
10. Transport Costs and Spatial Competition
11. The Empirical Economics of the Engineers
12. Dupuit on the Integration of Theory, Institutions, and Policy
13. The Legacy of Dupuit and the Econo-Engineers
Notes
References
Author Index
Subject Index