Alfred Marshall

Economist 1842-1924
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-54521-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Reihe: Great Thinkers in Economics

This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Groenewegen, P.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Alfred Marshall, a Giant among Economists Family, Childhood and Education (1842-1865) Marshall's Moral Sciences Apprenticeship and Search for a Vocation Bristol and Oxford (1877-1884) and Two 'Small Books' (1879) Professor at Cambridge (1885-1908) and Adviser to Governments Writing, and Revising, the Principles (1882-1922) Political Social Thought: 'A Youthful Tendency to Socialism', Changing Views on the Women's Issue, and a Taste for Advocacy and Occasional Controversy Retirement and Industry and Trade, an Important Companion Volume to the Principles Final Years and some Further Volumes (1919-1924) A Rich and Enduring Legacy Bibliography Chronological Bibliography of Marshall's Writings

Über Autor(innen)

PETER GROENEWEGEN has been an active researcher in the history of economic thought for nearly fifty years, covering many aspects of the subject. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published many books on the history of economic thought, including a widely acclaimed biography of Alfred Marshall, a collection in translation of Turgot's major writings on economics, and three volumes of his essays on the history of economics. As Director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Economic Thought from 1989 to 2003, he edited several volumes of conference proceedings and in 2005 his services to the subject were recognised by both the History of Economics Society (which named him a Distinguished Fellow) and the European Society of the History of Economic Thought (which made him an Honorary Member).