The economic works of Johann Heinrich von Thünen include 1,000 unpublished pages of drafts and notes on the basis of which he prepared the second volume of his famous “Isolated State in Relation to Agriculture and Political Economy”. Thünen wrote his texts in the so-called Deutsche...

William Forster Lloyd's 1833 sketch about poor cattle on the commons and the well-fed animals on the adjacent enclosures published in his "Two lectures on the checks to population" has hitherto been assessed as one starting point of the economics of renewable resources. In the 20th century the...

In Abhandlungen von Dorfman und Samuelson 1986 und van Suntum 1988 wird Thünen's berühmte Grabsteinformel unter Berücksichtigung seiner spezifischen Annahmen bestätigt. Allerdings wird Thüenen's Vorgehen zur Erzielung dieses Ergebnisses bis heute kontrovers diskutiert. Mit diesem Papier...