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Cover of Alfred Marshall's Mission (Routledge Revivals)

Alfred Marshall was anxious to do good. Intended by an Evangelical father for the vocation of clergyman, the author of the mould-shaping Principles of Economics remained to the end of his days a great preacher deeply committed to raising the tone of life. First published in 1990, Alfred Marshall’s Mission explains how this most moral of political economists sought to blend the downward sloping utility function of Jevons and Menger with the organic evolutionism of Darwin and Spencer, how this celebrated theorist of social alongside economic growth sought to combine the mathematical marginalism of Cournot. Thunen and Edgeworth with the ethical uplift of Green, Jowett and Toynbee. The conclusion reached is that perhaps Marshall was, after all, too anxious to do good. Far more economists, however, have been not anxious enough; and that in itself gives this study of Marshall’s life and times a present day relevance which would, no doubt, have appealed strongly to the shy Cambridge professor who is its subject.

Cover of Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides an enlightening insight into Marshall's thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity. He planned books on these subjects which he never subsequently wrote, but the thesis of this work is that a close study of such writings as Marshall did complete makes possible a very detailed reconstruction of the important contribution which Marshall was capable of making to Victorian evolutionary thought (much in the shadow of Darwin and Spencer). In the ongoing debate on the political element in political economy, he reveals himself to have been as much an eclectic as was Adam Smith and as much a man of commitment as was T. H. Green.

Cover of Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

Cover of The Economics of Alfred Marshall (Routledge Revivals)
The Economics of Alfred Marshall is concerned with the theories of demand, supply, market structures and income distributions which the celebrated author of the Principles of Economics developed while standing on the shoulders of giants. It is thus concerned with hidden assumptions, institutional constraints, tentative conclusions and blurred distinctions; for these are an integral part of the contribution of an economist who warned against spurious over-simplification of that which is inherently complex. The economics of Alfred Marshall appears easy when in fact it is fraught with difficulties. The Economics of Alfred Marshall seeks to explain Marshall's theories in detail and to evaluate them in depth. The book attempts in that way to help the reader to gain a deeper understanding of an influential thinker whose insights, however difficult, continue to shed a great deal of light on the nature and workings of the economic system.

Cover of Alfred Marshall's Mission (Routledge Revivals)

Cover of Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall

by David Reisman

Published 1 January 1987
Marshall planned books on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity which he never subsequently wrote. The thesis of Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics is that a close study of such writings as Marshall did complete makes possible a very detailed reconstruction indeed of the important contribution which Marshall was capable of making to Victorian evolutionary thought (much in the shadow of Darwin and Spencer) and to on-going debate on the political element in political economy, where he reveals himself to have been as much an eclectic as was Adam Smith and as much a man of commitment as was T.H.Green.