Alfred Marshall and Modern Economics: Equilibrium Theory and Evolutionary Economics

by N. Hart

Overview

Alfred Marshall and Modern Economics re-examines Marshall's legacy and relevance to modern economic analysis with the more settled conventional wisdom concerning evolutionary processes allowing advances in economic theorising which were not possible in Marshall's life time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230302716
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/25/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Neil Hart is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published extensively in the areas of the History of Economic Thought, Economic Methodology, Post Keynesian Economics and Macroeconomic Policy. His previous publications include Equilibrium and Evolution: Marshall and the Marshallians, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Equilibrium and Evolution 1. Alfred Marshall's Economic Biology Mecca and Mechanical Analogies 2. Equilibrium Economics after Marshall 3. Keynes' Marshallian Heritage and the Walrasian Eclipse 4. Equilibrium Growth and Cumulative Sausation 5. The Revitalisation of Marshall's Industrial Economics 6. Themes in Evolutionary Economics 7. Marshall, Evolutionary Economics and Post-Keynesian Theory Conclusions Notes Bibliography

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