Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Carl Menger

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian economist Carl Menger.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Carl Menger

Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün was an Austrian economist and the founder of the Austrian School of economics. Menger contributed to the development of the theories of marginalism and marginal utility, which rejected cost-of-production theory of value, such as developed by the classical economists such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo. As a departure from such, he would go on to call his resultant perspective, the subjective theory of value.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.
Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy. — © Carl Menger
Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning
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