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An important figure in this context is the French civil engineer Arsene 
Jules Etienne Juvenal Dupuit (1804-1866), who pioneered the cost-benefit 
analysis of public works. An early example is his article on the 
Measurement of the Utility of Public Works of 1844. Dupuit influenced both 
Walras and Marshall. 
 
See particularly: 
 
Ekelund, Robert (1971). "Economic Empiricism in the Writings of Early 
Railway Engineers," Explorations in Economic History, 9: 180-196. 
 
Ekelund, Robert B. Jr. and William P. Gramm. (1970). "Early French 
Contributions to Marshallian Demand Theory," Southern Economic Journal, 36: 
277-286.  
 
Ekelund, Robert B. Jr. and Robert F. Hebért. (1978). "French Engineers, 
Welfare Economics and Public Finance in the Nineteenth Century," History of 
Political Economy, 10: 636-668. 
 
Thomas Moser 
 
 
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