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Léon Walras (1834–1910)
Léon Walras (1834–1910), a French economist, was a key founder of the neoclassical school of economics. After an unremarkable academic start, which included twice failing the entrance exam for the prestigious École Polytechnique in Paris, he pursued an engineering degree at the École des Mines de Paris. His career shifted toward economics when his father, also an economist, persuaded him to work on establishing economics as a formal science. Walras developed a significant mathematical model of a whole economy, premised on the idea that buyers and sellers are price-takers, which has profoundly influenced how economists view and analyze markets.
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