Edwin Cannan

Edwin Cannan

Edwin Cannan (1861–1935) was a British economist and historian of economic thought. He was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1895 to 1926.

As a partisan of Jevonianism, Edwin Cannan is perhaps best known for his logical dissection and destruction of Classical theory in his famous 1898 tract "History of the Theories of Production and Distribution". Although Cannan had personal and professional difficulties with Alfred Marshall, he was still "Marshall's man" at the LSE from 1895 to 1926. During that time, particularly during his long stretch as chairman after 1907, Edwin Cannan shepherded the LSE away from its roots in Fabian socialism into tentative Marshallianism. This period was only to last, however, until his protege, Lionel Robbins, took over with his more "Continental" ideas.

According to Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Cannan "emphasised the institutional foundation of economic systems". ["How Economics Forgot History" (2001), p.205. Hodgson continues with the remark that in "Wealth" (1914) Cannan stressed the family, private property and the state.]

Major works

*"Elementary Political Economy", 1888.
*"The Origin of the Law of Diminishing Returns, 1813-15", 1892, "EJ".
*"Ricardo in Parliament", 1894, "EJ".
*"A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution in English Political Economy from 1776 to 1848", 1898.
*"Preface and Introduction to Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", 1904.
*"The Economic Outlook", 1912.
*"Wealth", 1914.
*"Early History of the term "Capital"", 1921, "QJE".
*"An Application of the Theoretical Apparatus of Supply and Demand to Units of Currency", 1921, "EJ".
*"Money: Its connexion with rising and falling prices", 1923.
*"Monetary Reform", with J.M. Keynes, Addis and Milner, 1924, "EJ"
*"An Economist's Protest", 1927
* Modern Currency and the Regulation of Its Value. London: D.S. King and Son, 1932.

* "Collected Works of Edwin Cannan" (1998, 8 volumes), edited by Alan Ebenstein (London & New York: Routledge/Thoemmes Press)

Note

External links

* [http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/cannan.htm Edwin Cannan ] at cepa.newschool.edu
* [http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/cannan/ Cannan index ] at socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca
* [http://archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=overview.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo='cannan') Catalogue of Edwin Cannan papers at London School of Economics (LSE) Archives]
* [http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/rare_books/cannan_collection.htm Edwin Cannan's Library at LSE Archives]


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