This book provides a study of the forces underlying the development of economic thought at Cambridge University during the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. The primary lens it uses to do so is an examination of how Arthur Cecil Pigou’s thinking, heavily...

Foreword -- Part One: Revisiting Marshall’s Economics -- 1. Alfred Marshall in the Lower Valdarno -- 2. The organization of knowledge and knowledge as organization -- 3.Raffaelli on historical progress in Smith and in Marshall -- 4. Marshall's external economies. Economic evolution and...

This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions