Defending Marshall's 'masterpiece': Ralph Souter's critique of Robbins' Essay
考察了1930年代索特如何捍卫马歇尔的《经济学原理》，批判罗宾斯将经济学重塑为‘纯粹形式科学’的尝试，并指出索特最早关注到马歇尔的演化经济学萌芽。
We examine Ralph W. Souter's defence, in the 1930s, of Marshall's Principles against Robbins' attempt to recast economics as a 'purely formal science of implications'. Souter elaborated on Marshall's invocations progressively to increase the realism of economic science and contrasted this perspective on Marshall with Robbins' atomistic bias, neglect of historical time and irreversibilities, arbitrary restrictions on the scope of economic science and emphasis on logical and mathematical form over content. Souter demonstrates that Robbins takes a Walrasian-inspired perspective on Marshall's equilibrium concept whereas the 'authentically Marshallian' equilibrium notion generally incorporates potential for endogenous change. On this and other matters Souter has priority in drawing attention to Marshall's incipient 'evolutionary economics'.