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[NOTE: Barkley sent two messages on this topic. The second  
clarified the first. I have put the two together here. The first  
paragraph is his first message, and the last two paragraphs are his  
second. He is right that the topic had been mentioned in a recent  
discussion  -- It seemed vaguely familiar to me, but I couldn't  
remember the thread. Thanks, Barkley! -- RBE] 
 
Steve, 
 
There was a major discussion on this list in September on this  
question.  I suggest you check the archives.  The quick answer is  
that Cournot had them in 1838 in his famous book, but with price  
on the horizontal axis like Walras did later (1874).  The first to have  
them in the Marshallian form was Karl Heinrich Rau in 1841 in an  
appendix to his main book.  Sorry, but I'm having trouble digging up  
the reference that has the title of that book quickly at this moment.  
 It's probably in the HES archives. See the discussion on the  
German proto-neoclassicals.   
 
The source for the original appearance of the Marshallian-style  
supply and demand curves is in an appendix on pp. 525-527 of the  
fourth edition, 1841 of Karl Heinrich Rau's _Grundsatze der  
Volkwirthschaftslehre, Heidelberg: C.F. Winter. The first edition  
appeared in 1826.  He was influenced to do this by Friedrich  
Benedikt Wilhelm Hermann, who in 1832 first introduced the  
standard upward-sloping supply curve as a general phenomenon in  
_Staatswirthschafliche Untersuchungen_, Munich: A. Weber.   
 
Erich Streissler has discussed this matter in several papers,  
including one presented at the August IEA 13th World Congress in  
Buenos Aires entitled, "Rau, Hermann, and Roscher: Contributions  
of German Economics around the Middle of the 19th Century."    
 
Barkley Rosser 
 
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