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

by John Maloney

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138537866
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/18/2020
Series:	Classics in Economics (Paperback)
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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