The Professionalization of Economics: Alfred Marshall and the Dominance of Orthodoxy [Hardcover]

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 Marshalls 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 Hobsons choice, Orthodox welfare economics, 9 Economists and ethics, 10 The ideology of marginalism, 11 The Marshallians and the Pigouese, Biographical notes, Notes, Select bibliography, IndexThis 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.John Maloney is lecturer in economics at the University of Exeter in England. He held the same position for several years at Plymouth Polytechnic CollegeUSCopyright ? Cambridge University Press 1985