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Character in Alfred Marshall’s work: not so commonplace?

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  • Rozenn Martinoia

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Character is commonly recognised as a crucial notion in Alfred Marshall’s thought, and more broadly in Victorian thought. However, this concept is never intrinsically defined. This paper offers an intellectual reconstruction of the notion of character in Marshall’s thought. While not denying that Marshall’s ideas evolve between his early writings and his later writings, this reconstruction focuses on the unchanged elements of his thought. This reconstruction is also an opportunity to re-examine Marshall’s conception of social ideal, on the basis of archives documents: Marshall conceives character as a complex of psychological, moral and cognitive faculties that – in a somewhat circular way – both makes sense in the light of his social ideal and serves his social ideal.

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  • Rozenn Martinoia, 2014. "Character in Alfred Marshall’s work: not so commonplace?," Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, L'Harmattan, issue 66, pages 35-68.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpo:journl:y:2014:i:66:p:35-68
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    Keywords

    Alfred Marshall; character; moral welfare; utilitarianism; perfectionism.;
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    JEL classification:

    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B13 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Wicksellian)
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • D69 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Other

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