A.C. Pigou and the 'Marshallian' Thought Style
ISBN:
978-3-03-001017-1
Auflage:
1st ed. 2018
Verlag:
Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.01.2019
Reihe:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
316
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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 influenced by his predecessor, Alfred Marshall, evolved.
Aspects of Pigou’s context, biography and philosophical grounding are reconstructed and then situated within the framework of Ludwik Fleck’s philosophy of scientific knowledge, most notably by drawing on the notions of ‘thought styles’ and ‘thought collectives’. In this way, Knight provides a novel contribution to the history of Pigou's economic thought.
Schlagwörter
Welfare economics
Alfred Marshall
Cambridge economics
Sociology of science
History of philosophy
The Theory of Unemployment
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Ludwik Fleck
Thought styles
Thought collectives
Marshallian tradition
Ethical-philosophical theory
A.C. Pigou’s economic thought
Pigou and mathematics
Marshallian Thought Style
Biografische Anmerkung
Karen Lovejoy Knight is Economics Tutor and Sessional Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, Western Australia and Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. She is also a business consultant and independent researcher. Her research interests lie in the history of economic thought, economic history, political economy, the sociology of scientific knowledge and philosophy.
