A Representative Man: Review Article

Renee Prendergast

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1998, vol. 22, issue 1, 91-102

Abstract: This paper reviews Peter Groenewegen's biography of Alfred Marshall. It addresses issues such as the nature and formation of Marshall's vision, his attitude towards the facts, his status as a neoclassical economist, and his attitude towards laissez-faire. Groenewegen's depiction of Marshall as a theorist of economic development and not of static resource allocation is supported, as is his conclusion that Marshall's opposition to government intervention was on entrepreneurial grounds and did not involve any commitment to the ideology of laissez-faire. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1998
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