Um dos pioneiros da revolução marginalista, John Bates Clark desenvolveu o conceito de produtividade marginal e o "esgotamento do produto". Foi um dos primeiros marginalistas americanos, e se opôs à escola institucionalista, se convertendo assim em objeto predileto dos ataques de Veblen. De outro modo, seu filho, John Maurice Clark converteu-se em um destacado institucionalista.
Obras:
"The New Philosophy of Wealth" 1877, New Englander and Yale Review
"Unrecognized Forces in Political Economy", 1877, New Englander and Yale Review
"How to Deal with Communism", 1878, New Englander and Yale Review
"Business Ethics, Past and Present", 1879, New Englander and Yale Review
"The Nature and Progress of True Socialism" 1879, New Englander and Yale Review
"Spiritual Economics", 1880, New Englander and Yale Review
"The Philosophy of Value",1881, New Englander and Yale Review
"Non-competitive Economics", 1882, New Englander and Yale Review
"Recent Theories of Wages", 1883, New Englander and Yale Review
The Philosophy of Wealth, 1885
"The Moral Outcome of Labor Troubles", 1886, New Englander and Yale Review
"Christianity and Modern Economics", 1887, New Englander and Yale Review
"Capital and Its Earnings", 1888, Publications of AEA
"Possibility of a Scientific Law of Wages", 1889, Publications of AEA
"The Law of Wages and Interest", 1890, Annals of AAPSS.
"The "Trust": A New Agent for doing an Old Work: or Freedom doing the Work of Monopoly", 1890, New Englander and Yale Review
"Distribution as Determined by a Law of Rent", 1891, QJE
"The Genesis of Capital", 1893, Yale Review
"The Origin of Interest, 1895, QJE
"Real Issues Concerning Interest", QJE
"The Future of Economic Theory", 1898, QJE.
"The Modern Appeal to Legal Forces in Economic Life, 1894, AER
The Distribution of Wealth: A theory of wages, interest and profits. , 1899.
"Natural Divisions in Economic Theory", 1899, QJE.
"Disarming the Trusts", 1900, Atlantic Monthly
"Wages and Interest as Determined by Marginal Productivity", 1901, JPE
Essentials of Economic Theory, 1907.