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The Professionalization of Economics Alfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy
By John Maloney
Copyright 1991
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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