... University Press CCC 00 18-2702/88/$1.50 Alfred Marshall and the establishment of the Cambridge Economic Tripos Peter D.Groenewegen Keynes (1972, 218-19) indicated in his well known memoir of Marshall, that during...

... Culture . Cambridge: Harvard. Kadish, A. 1993 . Marshall and the Cambridge Economic Tripos. In The Market for Political Economy: The Advent of Economics in British University Culture, 1850-1905 , edited by A. Kadish and K. Tribe. London: Routledge. Mangan, J. 1981 . Athleticism in the Victorian...

... of the 1920s on the historicism and pragmatism of economic analysis clearer than Pigou, Marshall's successor, whose lectures on principles of economics were the basis of Tripos pedagogy in the 1920s. The validity of an analysis is not decided by the logic of economic science. It is tied to current economic...

... : Longman . Gray Edwin F. 1903 . “ The New Economics Tripos at Cambridge University .” Quarterly Journal of Economics 17 ( 3 ): 492 – 96 . Groenewegen Peter . 1995 . A Soaring Eagle: Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924 . Aldershot : Edward Elgar . Hart Neil . 2003...

... paid for her by the college.’ After a further year, she suggested that Grier should complete matriculation requirements and follow a Tripos course, which she did with resound- ing success.‘ Grier’s observations on Marshall are the more interesting as she was in no sense a strident feminist...

... and modern languages. Historical teaching in Cambridge in those days still reflected the influence of John Seeley (1834–1895), who had founded the independent history tripos in 18734 and had emphasized current politics above interest in history for and of itself (Kadish 1989, 134–41). Thus the tripos...

... . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Gibbins, J. R. 2001 . Constructing Knowledge in Mid-Victorian Cambridge: The Moral Sciences Tripos, 1850-70. In Teaching and Learning in Nineteenth-Century Cambridge , edited by J. Smith and C. Stray, 61 -88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Goldman, L...

...). European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 12 : 379 -402. ———. 2005b . Robertson and the Great Divide. The Correspondence with Kahn, Kaldor, J. Robinson, and Sraffa . In Marcuzzo and Rosselli 2005, 371–87. Nishizawa, T. 2004 . The Economics Tripos and the Marshallian School...

... for Victorian educational practice, a point well documented in Richards 1988. The roots of this crisis are linkedto the unhealthy state of mathematics in Englandassociatedwith the backward-looking mathematical tripos examination and its impor- tance in the Cambridge institutional structures that were...

... Marshall and Sidgwick came increasingly to disagree over reform of the tripos, Keynes was caught in the middle, though his sympathies were generally with Sidgwick, with whom his relations remained close and harmonious (236). In part this was due to personal reasons: however much he admired his...

.... Groenewegen P. D. 1988 . Alfred Marshall and the Establishment of the Cambridge Economic Tripos. HOPE 20 : 627 –67. Hagen J. B. 1993 . Clementsian Ecologists: The Internal Dynamics of a Research School. Osiris , 2nd ser., 8 : 178 –95. Hansen A. H. 1938 . Full Recovery...

... in a recent issue of HOPE show that for a number of years Pierson’s Principles of economics (London, 1902- 12) was one of the most-read books for the Economic Tripos.6 Marshall’s esteem for him was fully reciprocated; once he declared of Marshall that “there is no one in the field of thought...

... Theory: the Marshall Connection. In Perspectives in the History of Economic Thought . Edited by Donald A. Walker. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. Groenewegen , Peter 1988 . Alfred Marshall and the Establishment of the Cambridge Economics Tripos. HOPE 20 . 4 : 627 -67. Groenewegen , Peter...

... explain his easy abandonment of mathematics when he failed to come in first in the 1865 mathematical tripos. Marshall’s vanity, visible in this and in other matters, assisted in making this hypothesis. That vanity was explicitly remarked on by the artist William Rothenstein. As the painter...

...: the Weber Thesis Controversy. Lexington: Heath. Greenleaf , W. H. 1983 . The British Political Tradition, vol. 1 . London: Methuen. Groenewegen , P. 1988 . Alfred Marshall and the Establishment of the Cambridge Economic Tripos. HOPE 20 . 4 (Winter): 627 -52. Hacking , I...

... defines how Marshall’s Principles changed economics. David A. Col- lard’s essay, “Cambridge after Marshall,” examines the Marshallian Organon from the beginning of the Economics Tripos to the late 1920s. “The main features of the Marshallian Organon or ‘instrument of thought’ are its core...

... the mathematics tripos. A little bit of mathematics began to go a long way in the slow restructuring of class relationships in British so- ciety. Mathematics became a kind of sieve for the ambitious in a world where blood and breeding were no longer sufficient to deliver a certain kind of bureaucrat to staff...

... of endeavor that had previously been bailiwicks of aristocratic prestige. As Warwick mentions in an aside, and Jon Agar (in his Governmentality Machine [2003]) explores, the Trevelyan reforms of the Permanent Civil Service were themselves patterned upon the mathematics tripos. A little bit of mathematics...

... themselves patterned upon the mathematics tripos. A little bit of mathematics began to go a long way in the slow restructuring of class relationships in British so- ciety. Mathematics became a kind of sieve for the ambitious in a world where blood and breeding were no longer sufficient to deliver a certain...

... themselves patterned upon the mathematics tripos. A little bit of mathematics began to go a long way in the slow restructuring of class relationships in British so- ciety. Mathematics became a kind of sieve for the ambitious in a world where blood and breeding were no longer sufficient to deliver a certain...