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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in France in 1834, Walras developed the marginal theory of value at the same time as Jevons and Menger, working independently. His major work, Éléments d'économie politique pure, introduced general equilibrium theory: the idea that markets reach balance through a process of trial and error — what he called tâtonnement, guided by an imaginary auctioneer adjusting prices until supply meets demand everywhere at once. Pareto, Wicksell, and Cassel adopted the framework quickly. Decades later Hicks and Samuelson wove it into the neoclassical synthesis, and Arrow and Debreu refined the logical conditions under which equilibrium could exist. Walras died in 1910, having recast economics as a discipline of simultaneous equations.