4 Marshall: a professional economist guards the purity of his discipline.(Part II: nineteenth-century British and continental critics) From: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: Hebert, Robert F. | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In 1883 the name of Henry George was more familiar on both sides of the Atlantic than that of Alfred Marshall. Marshall was to achieve lasting recognition a decade later as the foremost British economist of his day, but George's Progress and Poverty had already achieved an unusual measure of success for a work in political economy. Sales of that volume reached 100,000 in the British Isles a few years after its appearance in a separate English edition. This popularity (in a period w...