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Informationen zum Autor Simon J. Cook is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University. He previously taught for five years at Duke University. Dr Cook received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext This book shows how Marshall's distinctive contributions to modern economics grew out of his early development of a neo-Hegelian social philosophy. Zusammenfassung Alfred Marshall (1842–1924) was one of the founders of modern economics. This book shows how Marshall's distinctive contributions to modern economics grew out of his early development of a neo-Hegelian social philosophy, which itself was the product of a youthful crisis of religious faith. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Contexts of Marshall's Intellectual Apprenticeship: 1. The state of long-term memories; 2. A liberal education; Part II. Dualist Moral Science: 1867-71: 3. Mental crisis; 4. The way of all flesh; 5. Political economy; Part III. Neo-Hegelian political economy: 1872-3: 6. A philosophy of history; 7. Missing links: the education of the working classes; Epilogue. 'A Rounded Globe of Knowledge': 8. Social philosophy and economic science.
