The Economics Tripos and the Marshallian School in the Making--With Special Reference to His Industrial Economics
探讨剑桥大学经济学荣誉学位考试的创立过程及马歇尔学派的真实面貌,特别对比马歇尔的产业经济学与阿什利的商业经济学,并分析马歇尔《产业与贸易》的写作背景。
My paper focuses on the making of Economics Tripos in Cambridge and what the Marshallian School was really like, in special reference to his industrial economics, or the 'science of business', compared with Ashley's Faculty of Commerce at Birmingham, and his 'business economics'. First I shall discuss Marshall's "Plea" for the creation of Cambridge School, and how Marshall tried to liberate Economics 'from the incubus of moral sciences', stressing how Marshall thought much of 'Economics, mainly Realistic', or Applied Economics. Then I shall discuss Ashley's 'Business Economics'. Thirdly I shall investigate how Marshall's Industry and Trade was composed, discussing Walter Layton and his scheme for a 'Professorship of industrial and commercial economics'.