ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the attitude of Alfred Marshall to the problem of historical specificity. It also shows how his intellectual stance has been misunderstood in some modern accounts of his relationship with the historical school. These misunderstandings are so pervasive that a false account of Marshall’s engagements with the historical school has emerged and spread among modern commentators. This false account involves the central proposition that Marshall was an opponent of the historical school. For instance, Robert Skidelsky (1983, p. 43) stated that Marshall ‘rejected the main contentions of the German historical school’.
