The Professionalization of Economics: Alfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy

ISBN-13: 9780887383458 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 290 str.

John Maloney

Opis

This book sheds light on how and why, early in the twentieth century, one set of economic ideas came to exert a preeminence, which has persisted to this day.

Spis treści

Contents, 1 Economics in the 1870s, 2 Marshall’s objectives and Marshallian orthodoxy, 3 John Neville Keynes, a reluctant lieutenant, 4 Cannan and Nicholson, 5 Cunningham and historicism, 6 Two economic outsiders: Macleod and Crozier, 7 Hobson’s choice, Orthodox welfare economics, 9 Economists and ethics, 10 The ideology of marginalism, 11 The Marshallians and the Pigouese, Biographical notes, Notes, Select bibliography, Index

O autorze

John Maloney is lecturer in economics at the University of Exeter in England. He held the same position for several years at Plymouth Polytechnic College