The marginalists who confronted land

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The,  Jan, 2008  by Fred E. Foldvary

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Without detracting at all from Mason Gaffney's research finding that neoclassical economists deliberately buried land, we can see that this was so for particular neoclassical economists and the interests they catered to, and for the school that dominates economics today, but as this paper shows, we should recognize that the burial of land was not an inherent part of the neoclassical turn but a hijacking of that historical development.

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