J.H. von Thunen

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Johann Heinrich von Thünen, 1780-1850.

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North German landowner from the Mecklenberg area. Although educated at Göttingen, he spent most of his life managing his rural estate, Tellow. In the first volume of his treatise, The Isolated State (1826), he laid down the first serious treatment of spatial economics, connecting with the theory of rent. His second volume (1850) developed the essence of the marginal productivity theory of distribution in a mathematically precise way, thereby making one of the most important Proto-Marginalists of the era. Nearing his death, he asked that his famous equation for the marginal product of labor, or natural wage (w =Ö ap), be carved into his tombstone.

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Major Works of Johann H. von Thünen

Der isolirte Staat in Beziehung auf Landwirthschaft und Nationalökonomie, oder Untersuchungen über den Einfluss, den die Getreidepreise, der Reichtum des Bodens und die Abgaben auf den Ackerbau ausüben, Vol. 1, 1826 [bk, bk], [1842 2nd ed], [1875 3rd ed, av1]
Der isolirte Staat,etc., Vol II, Der naturgeässe Arbeitslohn und dessen Verhältnis zum Zinsfuss und zur Landrente, Part 1, 1850 [1875 ed, av21]
(French trans): Recherches sur l'influence que le prix des grains, la richesse du sol et les impôts exercent sur les systèmes de culture, 1851 [bk]
(French trans): Le salaire naturel et son rapport au taux de l'intérèt, 1857 [bk]
Der isolirte Staat, Vol II, Part 2, 1863 [bk, av] [1875 ed, av22]
Der isolirte Staat, Vol. III, 1863 [bk] [1875 ed, av3]
[1875 ed: av1, av21, av22, av3]
[1910 Waentig ed: av ]

HET

HET Pages: Production Function, Neoclassical Theory of Distribution

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Resources on Johann von Thünen

Johann Heinrich von Thünen: ein Forscherleben by Hermann Schumann, 1868 [bk, av] [1883 ed]
"Thünen, J.H. von" in C. Coquelin and G.U. Guillaumin, editors, 1852, Dictionnaire de l'économie politique [1864 ed.]
"Thünen, J.H. von" in L. Say and J. Chailley-Bert, editors, 1892, Nouveau Dictionnaire de l'économie politique
"Thünen, J.H. von" in R.H. Inglis Palgrave, editor, 1894-1899, Dictionary of Political Economy [1918 ed.]
"Thünen, J.H. von" in J. Conrad et al, (1891-94) Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften [2nd ed, 1898-1901]
Johann Heinrich von Thünen und seine nationalökonomischen Hauptlehren by Max Büchler, 1907 [av]
Johann von Thünen Museum at Tellow (Thünen old estate)
Johann von Thünen Resources at Washington
Thünen Society, North American Division
The Von Thunen Geography Model
"The Thünen Model as a Paradigm for Rural Development", by J. Hite, 1999
Johann Heinrich von Thünen Lecture at Verein für Socialpolitik
Johann-Heinrich von Thünen Medal at Kiel
Von Thünen Slideshow
von Thünen's Model of Land Use
Johann von Thünen and von Thünen Models at x-refer
von Thünen Page (in German)
Johann von Thünen at Die Zeit (in German)
Die Theorie von Thünen 1826 (in German)
Thunen entry at Britannica
Wikipedia

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