Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I THE CONTEXTS OF MARSHALL'S INTELLECTUAL APPRENTICESHIP
- PART II DUALIST MORAL SCIENCE: 1867–1871
- PART III NEO-HEGELIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: 1872–1873
- EPILOGUE: “A ROUNDED GLOBE OF KNOWLEDGE”
- 8 Social Philosophy and Economic Science
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
8 - Social Philosophy and Economic Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I THE CONTEXTS OF MARSHALL'S INTELLECTUAL APPRENTICESHIP
- PART II DUALIST MORAL SCIENCE: 1867–1871
- PART III NEO-HEGELIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: 1872–1873
- EPILOGUE: “A ROUNDED GLOBE OF KNOWLEDGE”
- 8 Social Philosophy and Economic Science
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
INTRODUCTION
The aim of this final chapter is to sketch the broad outlines of Marshall's mature social philosophy and to identify its relationship to his mature formulation of economic doctrines. The chapter provides an epilogue to the detailed study of Marshall's early intellectual development that has occupied us until now in this book. Our business here is no longer to engage in close contextual readings, but rather to present in bare outline the key steps that took Marshall from “The Future of the Working Classes” in 1873 to the Principles of Economics – first published in 1890 but continuously revised as Marshall reorganized and redrafted his text over the course of seven subsequent editions. This chapter will argue that the development of Marshall's philosophical ideas after 1873 did not involve the derivation of completely new ideas so much as the revision of preexisting elements of his thought. Such revision, however, did direct Marshall toward a new evolutionary concept of economic organization. Together, these revised philosophical ideas and the new scientific concept of organization constituted the basic elements of that “rounded globe of knowledge” that was Marshall's mature social philosophy.
This chapter has four main sections. In the first we will discuss the seminal revision of Hegelian categories that Marshall enacted upon his return from a visit to America in 1875. As we shall see, Marshall now suggested that neither subjective nor objective freedom had yet reached its final stage of development and that their subsequent evolution was dependent on economic conditions.
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- The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall's Economic ScienceA Rounded Globe of Knowledge, pp. 265 - 298Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009