Abstract
Kröncke, a road engineer by profession, is the first German author known to have used mathematics in his economic writings. In a book published in 18041 which, though purporting to be a treatise on taxation, is really a book of economic principles, Kröncke uses ample mathematics, about the value of which he is most explicit, ‘I believe that the whole Political Economy allows and even demands such a method of treatment’, he writes.2
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Ross M. Robertson, ‘Mathematical Economics before Cournot’, Journal of Political Economy (1949) p. 534.
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Theocharis, R.D. (1983). The German Contribution. In: Early Developments in Mathematical Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04949-3_7
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