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And so Adam Smith he was the one who first invented the invisible hand.
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There was nothing mathematical in what he said.
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Ricardo was the first one to make a model.
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Marx said, I don't have time to talk about Marx,
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but he had quite elaborate models, actually,
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and his verbal arguments conceal a huge mathematical apparatus.
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On his deathbed, by the way, he was trying to learn calculus, incidentally.
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So Jevons, Menger and Walras 1871
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right after Marx's famous Kapital came out in 1867
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they invented the idea of the margin and things like that
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and the critique therefore of Marx,
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and Marx was trying to figure out what they were all about.