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Протомаржиналистский подход Юлия Жуковского и его истоки
The paper is devoted to Yuli Zhukovsky — the Russian 19th-century publicist who represented the economic thought of “thick journals”. Zhukovsky demonstrated both traits that W. S. Jevons attributed to marginalism, namely the use of mathematical apparatus and subjective value theory. On the one hand, believing that he was following “the Smithian approach”, Zhukovsky advocated for the application of mathematics in political economy as it would increase the rigour of the discipline. On the other hand, Zhukovsky was receptive of Bentham’s philosophy of utilitarianism, which brought him to acknowledge the subjective value theory. The eclectic combination of contemporary developments in political economy and the perception of utility as the fundamental driver of human nature brought Zhukovsky closer to the formulation of the neoclassical approach in economics.