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Thank you Bruce for your excellent exposition. Here's another question  
on this.  One frequently reads that Gossen "discovered" marginal utility  
in the 1850s and then that Walras, Jevons, and Menger independently  
did so again in the 1870s. Now, Streissler does a good job of making it  
clear that, however independent the discoveries by Walras and Jevons  
were, Menger was consciously drawing on this older German tradition  
of Rau, Hermann, and Roscher.  Streissler makes no reference at all, at  
least in the IEA paper, to Gossen.  Where does he fit in and why do  
many English language sources make this apparently silly claim about  
him?  More entrenched textbook errors a la Stigler?   
 
Barkley Rosser 
 
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