ABSTRACT
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: J S NICHOLSON AND THE REHABILITATION OF ADAM SMITH: SIR ROBERT GIFFEN,
In traduction
J S Nicholson occupied the Chair of Political Economy and Mercantile Law in his native city, Edinburgh, for some forty-five years (1880-1925), approximately twice the length of time Alfred Marshall was Professor at Cambridge.(!) Nicholson was at Cambridge when Marshall held his first teaching appointment in economics, and he generally accepted his teacher's ideas and views, although he later rejected Marshallian economics.(2) After Cambridge, Nicholson completed his formal education in Heidelberg, after which he accepted the Edinburgh professorship.
