Centenary Essays on Alfred Marshall

Twelve essays commemorating the life, work and legacy of Alfred Marshall, author of the seminal Principles of Economics.

John K. Whitaker (Edited by)

9780521381338, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 June 1990

312 pages, 12 b/w illus.
23.4 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.6 kg

"Whitaker thoroughly knows the manuscript material and brings Marshall to life as a human being." Gerard M. Koot, Albion

This collection of twelve original essays commissioned by Britain's Royal Economic Society commemorates the 1990 centennial of the first publication of Alfred Marshall's Principles of Economics, one of the truly seminal works in the history of the subject. Marshall, who lived from 1842 to 1924, was the founder of the Cambridge school of economics and the teacher of John Maynard Keynes. Each of the twelve essays in this volume focuses on some aspect or aspects of Marshall's work, life, or legacy. His magnum opus, the Principles, receives considerable attention, but the discussion is not narrowly restricted to that work - which was in any case only a portion of a larger project, never completed. John Whitaker's essay sets out the detailed history of Marshall's failure to complete the projected second volume of the Principles, and describes the thorny path leading to the publication of Industry and Trade in 1919 and Money Credit and Commerce in 1923.

Introduction
List of abbreviated titles
1. The place of Marshall's Principles in the development of economics George J. Stigler
2. Marshall and the labour market Robin C. O. Matthews
3. Alfred Marshall and the development of monetary economics David E. W. Laidler
4. Marshall and international trade John Creedy
5. Firms, markets, and the principles of continuity Brian J. Loasby
6. Marshall's work in relation to classical economics Denis P. O'Brien
7. Cambridge after Marshall David A. Collard
8. What happened to the second volume of the Principles? The thorny path to Marshall's last books John K. Whitaker
9. Alfred Marshall and the theory of capital Christopher Bliss
10. An aspect of Marshall's perios analysis A. K. Dasgupta
11. The great barter controversy Peter Newman
12. Marshall's consumer's surplus in modern perspective John S. Chipman
Index.

Subject Areas: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA]