18th Century Enlightenment Proto-Marginalists

• John Law, 1671-1729.

• Richard Cantillon, 1680-1734.

• Daniel Bernoulli, 1700-1782.

• Etienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac, 1714-1780

• Ferdinando Galiani, 1728-1787.

• Cesare Beccaria, Pietro Verri and the Italian Utilitarians

• Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot, 1727-1781. 

19th Century French Proto-Marginalists

• Achylle-Nicolas Isnard, 1749-1803.

• Nicolas-François Canard, 1750-1833.

• Antoine-Louis-Claude Destutt de Tracy, 1754-1836.

• Jean-Baptiste Say and the French Liberal School

• Antoine Augustin Cournot, 1801-1877.

• Arsène Jules Étienne Dupuit, 1804-1866.

• Antoine-Auguste Walras, 1801-1866.

19th Century German Proto-Marginalists

• Johann Heinrich von Thünen, 1780-1850.

• Karl Heinrich Rau, 1792-1870

• Friedrich B.W. Hermann, 1795-1868.

• Hermann Heinrich Gossen, 1810-1858.

• Hans Karl Emil von Mangoldt, 1824-1868