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The intellectual foundations of Alfred Marshall's economic science : a rounded globe of knowledge / Simon J. Cook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xviii, 331 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521760089 (hb.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.157 COO
Summary: This book provides a contextual study of the development of Alfred Marshall's thinking during the early years of his apprenticeship in the Cambridge moral sciences. Marshall's thought is situated in a crisis of academic liberal thinking that occurred in the late 1860s. His crisis of faith is shown to have formed part of his wider philosophical development, which saw him supplementing Anglican thought and mechanistic psychology with Hegel's Philosophy of History. This philosophical background informed Marshall's early reformulation of value theory and his subsequent wide-ranging reinterpretation of political economy as a whole. The book concludes with the suggestion that Marshall's mature economic science was conceived by him as but one part of a wider, neo-Hegelian, social philosophy.Summary: Pt. I. The Contexts of Marshall's Intellectual Apprenticeship 1. Continuity and Consensus: The State 2. A Liberal Education Pt. II. Dualist Moral Science: 1867-1871 3. Mental Crisis 4. The Way of All Flesh 5. Political Economy Pt. III. Neo-Hegelian Political Economy: 1872-1873 6. A Philosophy of History 7. Missing Links: The Education of the Working Classes Epilogue: "A Rounded Globe of Knowledge" 8. Social Philosophy and Economic Science.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book provides a contextual study of the development of Alfred Marshall's thinking during the early years of his apprenticeship in the Cambridge moral sciences. Marshall's thought is situated in a crisis of academic liberal thinking that occurred in the late 1860s. His crisis of faith is shown to have formed part of his wider philosophical development, which saw him supplementing Anglican thought and mechanistic psychology with Hegel's Philosophy of History. This philosophical background informed Marshall's early reformulation of value theory and his subsequent wide-ranging reinterpretation of political economy as a whole. The book concludes with the suggestion that Marshall's mature economic science was conceived by him as but one part of a wider, neo-Hegelian, social philosophy.

Pt. I. The Contexts of Marshall's Intellectual Apprenticeship
1. Continuity and Consensus: The State
2. A Liberal Education
Pt. II. Dualist Moral Science: 1867-1871
3. Mental Crisis
4. The Way of All Flesh
5. Political Economy
Pt. III. Neo-Hegelian Political Economy: 1872-1873
6. A Philosophy of History
7. Missing Links: The Education of the Working Classes
Epilogue: "A Rounded Globe of Knowledge"
8. Social Philosophy and Economic Science.

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