A beautiful essay that also deals with this subject is Nicholas
Georgescu-Roegen "Hermann Heinrich Gossen: His Life and Work in Historica=
l
Perspective" in The Laws of Human Relations: and the Rules of Human Actio=
n
Derived Therefrom, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1983.Translation by Rudolp=
h
C. Blitz. Original Entwick(e)lung der Gesetze des menschlichen Verkehrs, =
und
der daraus fliessenden Regeln f=FCr menchliches Handeln, 1854.
Nicholas J. Theocarakis