ABSTRACT

This book sheds light on how and why, early in the twentieth century, one set of economic ideas came to exert a preeminence, which has persisted to this day.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction to the First Edition

part I|61 pages

Marshall’s Plans

chapter I|15 pages

Economics in the 1870s

part 2|95 pages

Marshall’s Peers?

chapter 4|22 pages

Cannan and Nicholson

chapter 5|29 pages

Cunningham and historicism

chapter 7|20 pages

Hobson’s choice

part 3|75 pages

Marshallian Prejudices

chapter 8|21 pages

Orthodox welfare economics

chapter 9|17 pages

Economists and ethics

chapter 10|20 pages

The ideology of marginalism

chapter 11|15 pages

The Marshallians and the Pigouese