Re: Marshall on Nature and Economy

[ROSSERJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx id <01HPSQSE3FHS8ZEA1Z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 14:42:04 -0500 (EST)]

     See also by me (eeeek! self-advertising!)
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., "The dialogue between the
economic and the ecologic theories of evolution,"
_Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization_,
1991, vol 17, pp. 195-216.
     The hard fact is that Marshall like any really
interesting economist (this includes Smith, Marx,
Keynes, and Hayek, among others) is fascinatingly
complex and at times apparently contradictory.  Thus
as he is both the father of fatuous neoclassicism at
its didactically most trivial and mechanical, combined
with otiose continuous Darwinianism.  At the same time
he is biological/evolutionary, dynamically nonlinear
and highly complex, with multiple equilibria and
foreshadowings of path dependence along with other stuff.
But much of this was in prefaces, footnotes, and
appendices.
Barkley Rosser
James Madison University