Carl Menger, Crown Prince Rudolf, and the Marginal Revolution That Never Was

07/13/2026 Justin M. Ptak

Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, served as the tutor for Austrian-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph. But Rudolph’s untimely death in 1889 would end up changing the ruling dynamics of pre-World War I Central Europe.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/carl-menger-crown-prince-rudolf-and-marginal-revolution-never-was

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Carl Menger, Crown Prince Rudolf, and the Marginal Revolution That Never Was