WALRAS, Léon.

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Théorie critique de l'impôt, précédé de souvenirs du Congrès de Lausanne. First and only edition of Walras's second published book on economics. The work is an important early testimonial to his profound admiration for, and intellectual identification with, his father. In the lengthy preface, he reviews the ideas contained in the works of Auguste Walras, including the concept of "rareté" which was to influence Léon Walras's formulation of marginal utility.Walras then relates this intellectual patrimony to his own essay on taxation, which follows a discussion of the international congress on taxation in Lausanne in 1860.

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