The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall's Economic Science: A Rounded Globe of Knowledge (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)
Cambridge University Press, 7/6/2009
EAN 9780521760089, ISBN10: 0521760089
Hardcover, 350 pages, 23.7 x 16.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English
This book provides a contextual study of the development of Alfred Marshall's thinking during the early years of his apprenticeship in the Cambridge moral sciences. Marshall's thought is situated in a crisis of academic liberal thinking that occurred in the late 1860s. His crisis of faith is shown to have formed part of his wider philosophical development, which saw him supplementing Anglican thought and mechanistic psychology with Hegel's Philosophy of History. This philosophical background informed Marshall's early reformulation of value theory and his subsequent wide-ranging reinterpretation of political economy as a whole. The book concludes with the suggestion that Marshall's mature economic science was conceived by him as but one part of a wider, neo-Hegelian, social philosophy.
Introduction
Part I. The Contexts of Marshall's Intellectual Apprenticeship
1. The state of long-term memories
2. A liberal education
Part II. Dualist Moral Science
1867–71
3. Mental crisis
4. The way of all flesh
5. Political economy
Part III. Neo-Hegelian political economy
1872–3
6. A philosophy of history
7. Missing links
the education of the working classes
Epilogue. 'A Rounded Globe of Knowledge'
8. Social philosophy and economic science.