Alfred Marshall : progress and politics / David Reisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reisman, David A., author.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marshall, Alfred, 1842-1924.

Marshall, Alfred.

Neoclassical school of economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (511 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides an enlightening insight into Marshall's thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity. He planned books on these subjects which he never subsequently wrote, but the thesis of this work is that a close study of such writings as Marshall did complete makes possible a very detailed reconstruction of the important contribution which Marshall was capable of making to Victorian evolutionary thought (much in the shadow of Darwin and Spencer). In the ongoing debate on the political element in

Contents:

Alfred Marshall Progress and Politics; Copyright; ALFRED MARSHALL Progress and Politics; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Human Betterment; 2.1 Want-Satisfaction; 2.2 Conduct and Character; (i) Honesty; (ii) Respect for persons; (iii) The pursuit of excellence; (iv) Generosity; (v) Deliberateness; 2.3 Change - The Negative Side; (i) Want-satisfaction; (ii) The family; (iii) Speculation; (iv) Competition; 3 Growth and Betterment; 3.1 From Growth to Betterment; (i) The constants; (ii) The infrastructure; (iii) The variables; 3.2 From Betterment to Growth; (i) Want-satisfaction

(ii) Conduct and character(iii) Change - the negative side; 4 Collective Action; 4.1 Socialism; 4.2 Market and State; 4.3 State and Improvement; 4.4 Co-operation; (i) Economic efficiency; (ii) Moral upgrading; 5 Micro Economic Policy; 5.1 The Nature of Taxation; (i) Taxes on income; (ii) Taxes on wealth; (iii) Taxes on expenditure; 5.2 Collective Consumption; (i) Health and housing; (ii) Education; 5.3 The Relief of Poverty; (i) The minimum wage; (ii) Income maintenance; 5.4 Industry and Trade; (i) Control of monopoly; (ii) Public ownership; (iii) The provision of intelligence

(iv) Trade policy6 Macroeconomic Policy; 6.1 The Quantity Theory of Money; (i) The quantity of money; (ii) The velocity of money; (iii) Money, velocity and prices; 6.2 The Transmission Mechanism; (i) The rate of interest; (ii) The level of prices; 6.3 Upswings and Downswings; (i) The boom; (ii) The slump; (iii) Say's law; 6.4 Stabilisation Policy; (i) The tabular standard; (ii) Bimetallism; (iii) Reserves and exchanges; 7 Progress, Politics and Economics; 7.1 The Definition of Economics; 7.2 Induction and Deduction; (i) Induction; (ii) Deduction; 7.3 Organicism and Economics

(i) Natura non facit saltum(ii) The many in the one, the one in the many; 7.4 The Mission of the Economist; Notes and References; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1987 by St. Martin's Press"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-488) and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-70343-8

1-283-96516-X

0-203-81391-X

1-136-70344-6

9780203813911

OCLC:

829461719