The Economics of Alfred Marshall Revisiting Marshall's Legacy [Hardcover]

The Economics of Alfred Marshall brings together a number of leading international scholars for a timely reappraisal of Marshall's contribution to the development of economics. The aims of the contributors are firstly to revisit the work of Alfred Marshall and to investigate the unity of his projects, which contemporary authors often tend to underestimate; and secondly to show how Marshall's approach is not only a subject for historians of economic thought, but may also provide a message that is relevant for the progress of economics.Notes on the Contributors Introductory Remarks; R.Arena & M.Qu?r? PART I: THE LEGACY OF MARSHALL'S ECONOMICS The Return of the 'White Elephant'; G.Becattini Dealing with Complexity - Marshall and Keynes on the Nature of Economic Thinking; R.Marchionatti Alfred Marshall on Social Capital; D.Reisman Marshall's Objective: Making Orthodox Economics Intelligible to Business Leaders; L.S.Moss Alfred Marshall's Partial Equilibrium: Dynamics in Disguise; M.Dardi Competition and Evolution: The Marshallian Conciliation Enterprise; P.Groenewegen PART II: ECONOMIC EVOLUTION AND THE ORGANIZATIONOF INDUSTRY: MARSHALLIAN INSIGHTS Alfred Marshall's Principles and Industry and Trade: Two Books or One? Marshall and the Joint Stock Company; J.K.Whitaker From the Representative to the Equilibrium Firm: Why Marshall was not a Marshallian?; N.Hart Increasing Returns and Competition: Learning From a Marshallian Perspective; M.Qu?r? Efficiency and Time; B.J.Loasby Organization and Knowledge in Marshall's Economics; R.Arena Some Remarks on Marshallian External Economies and Industrial Tendencies; M.Bellandi Requirements and Patterns of Marshallian Evolution: Their Impact on the Notion of Industrial District; T.RaffaelliGIACOMO BECATTINI Professor of Economics, University of Florence, ItalyMARCO BELLANDI Associate Professor of Political Economy, Universita degli studi di Firenze, ItalyMARCO DARDI Institute of Political Economy, University of FlorencePETER GRls>