Johann Heinrich von Thünen, 1780-1850.
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 ]
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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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