IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-03239-6_14.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Origins of the Robertsonian Approach to the Theory of Interest

In: Robertsonian Economics

Author

Listed:
  • John R. Presley

Abstract

It is particularly in relation to the theory of interest that one can productively investigate the claim that ‘it’s all in Marshall’. Two distinct areas of inquiry can be laid open. Firstly, one must explore the extent of Robertson’s knowledge and understanding of the Marshallian theory of interest, and secondly it is important to compare the two theories. There is an element of truth in Keynes’ assertion that Marshall did not provide any consecutive discussion of the rate of interest in any of his published writings.1 But this does not mean that it is impossible to gain some insight into his theory of interest, although the task is made much more difficult, and the insight fringed with a certain amount of confusion and interpretive licence!2

Suggested Citation

  • John R. Presley, 1978. "Origins of the Robertsonian Approach to the Theory of Interest," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Robertsonian Economics, chapter 8, pages 148-151, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03239-6_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-03239-6_14
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-03239-6_14. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.