These notes, written in 1907, are part of 5/36, described in the catalogue of the Alfred Marshall Archive Papers as 'extremely varied notes, including some from about 1874. No obvious overall subject area, although several sections on functions of government and the ideal state.' This item in...

The notes here reproduced belong to the early period of Marshall's life, when first metaphysics, and a little later mental philosophy - the forerunner of psychology - were his main interests. With the minutes of the Grote Club meetings (Raffaelli 1996), these notes can be read as a sort of...