The professionalization of economics : Alfred Marshall and the dominance of orthodoxy

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The professionalization of economics : Alfred Marshall and the dominance of orthodoxy

John Maloney ; with a new introduction by the author

(Classics in economics)

Transaction Publishers, c1991

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Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-270) and index

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Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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