ABSTRACT
It is well known that in his Principles, Marshall acknowledged an influence of Hegel in the context of the ‘notion of continuity with respect to development’, and that Hegel’s Philosophy of History is cited on a number of occasions in the material on the growth of free industry and enterprise in what became Appendix A of the Principles from the original Book I, Chapters II and III. In addition, in Marshall’s remarks on the development of economics, Hegel, together with Goethe and Comte, is praised as one who applied to the social sciences the notion ‘that the laws of the science must have a development corresponding to the things of which they treat’ (Marshall 1961: I, ix, 724n, 730n, 733n, 764).
