Endres, Anthony M.; Donoghue, M. - In: Cambridge Journal of Economics 34 (2010) 3, pp. 547-568
We examine Ralph W. Souter's defence, in the 1930s, of Marshall's Principles against Robbins' attempt to recast economics as a 'purely formal science of implications'. Souter elaborated on Marshall's invocations progressively to increase the realism of economic science and contrasted this...