1st Edition

Minor Marshallians and Alfred Marshall An Evaluation

By Peter Groenewegen Copyright 2012
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Alfred Marshall, Professor of Economics at Cambridge University (1885-1908), produced a distinguished a distinguished crop of students, many of them leaders in the economics profession in subsequent generations. Pigou, Keynes and Denis Robertson are undoubtedly the most famous of these Marshall ‘pupils’ but there were many more, even if more minor forces in the development of early twentieth... Read more

1. Introduction: Ten Minor Marshallians as part of the Marshallian School of Economics: Some Definitional Issues  2. Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850-1927): An Early Economics Associate and Student of Marshall, but One Not Quite What He Qanted  3. Alfred William Flux (1867-1942): A Mathematician Successfully ‘Caught’ for Economics by Marshall  4. Sydney John Chapman (1871-1951): Labour Economics, Public Finance, Economic Principles and Economic History: A Student of Marshall with Great Academic Distinction  5. Charles Percy Sanger (1871-1930): A Student ‘Worth Teaching’ for Marshall and Subsequent Contributor to Demand Theory and Mathematical Economics  6. John Harold Clapham (1873-1946): A ‘Marshallian’ Cambridge Economic Historian and Gadfly ?  7. David Hutchinson MacGregor (1877-1953): Industry Economics, Economic Thought and Policy  8. Frederick Lavington (1881-1927): Exploring the English Capital Market and the Trade Cycle from a Marshallian Perspective  9. Charles Ryle Fay (1884-1961): A Devoted Co-operator and Teacher of Economic History: One of Marshall’s ‘Favourite’ Cambridge Pupils  10. Walter Thomas Layton (1884-1966) on the Relations of Capital and Labour: A Marshallian Pur Sang?  11. Gerald Francis Shove (1888-1947): An Inspired Contributor to the Theory of Costs and of the Firm in the Marshallian Tradition  12. Conclusions

Biography

Peter Groenewegen is Honorary Associate and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney, Australia.