A representative man
评论了Peter Groenewegen所写的阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔传记,探讨了马歇尔的经济学视野、对新古典经济学的态度以及对自由放任的看法,支持了马歇尔是经济发展理论家而非静态资源配置理论家的观点。
This paper reviews Peter Groenewegen's biography of Alfred Marshall. It addresses issues such as the nature and formation of Marshall's vision, his attitude towards the facts, his status as a neoclassical economist and his attitude towards laissez-faire. Groenewegen's depiction of Marshall as a theorist of economic development and not of static resource allocation is supported, as is his conclusion that Marshall's opposition to government intervention was on entrepreneurial grounds and did not involve any commitment to the ideology of laissez-faire.