Retirement and Industry and Trade (1919): An Important Companion Volume to the Principles

Peter Groenewegen
Additional contact information
Peter Groenewegen: University of Sydney

Chapter 8 in Alfred Marshall, 2007, pp 139-161 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter reviews the final years of Marshall’s life from his retirement in 1908 as Cambridge Professor of Political Economy to the publication of Industry and Trade in 1919 as the first of an eventual two companion volumes to the Principles. The discussion of these eleven years is broken up as follows. The first section (Section 8.1) deals with Marshall’s retirement, a step he took to provide more time for the writing of the companion volumes whose publication had already been delayed for far too long. It also discusses the final lecture he gave just before he retired and the honours conferred on him by his university including that of the painting by William Rothenstein of his official portrait. Section 8.2 examines the battle for the succession between Foxwell and Pigou, and Marshall’s role in Pigou’s election to the Cambridge chair. The early years of Marshall’s voluntary retirement, that is, up to the beginning of First World War in 1914, are discussed in Section 8.3. Marshall’s work during the war is looked at in Section 8.4 under the heading of a ‘principled war effort’. Section 8.5 then reviews the circumstances surrounding the writing of Industry and Trade, followed by a discussion of its publication, its contents and its reception in Section 8.6. A concluding section closes the chapter.

Keywords: Business Organisation; Companion Volume; Sixth Edition; Capital Taxation; Import Duty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:gtechp:978-0-230-59306-0_8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230593060

DOI: 10.1057/9780230593060_8

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Great Thinkers in Economics from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().