Talk:Alfred Marshall
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Ţhis guy is sweet
Marshall needs more material. Pick up any Microeconomics text book today and it will be a knock-off of Samuelson's rewrite of Marshall, he is that influential. -E Plumlee (11/10)
I totally agree, he is a sweet guy.-HAMMIE!!!!
[edit] Supply and Demand
Not to take away from Marshall, who was a sweet guy, but I understand Cournot was the first to derive supply and demand curves, back in 1848. Marshall just popularized it. I don't have a reference handy but I think it's pretty well established in History of Economic Thought literature radek 08:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Original Research Badly Written, Really?
Radeksz removed my commentray on Marshall's critics, and the removal is not neutral. Perhaps the commentary was badly written. In that case, the edit should have improved the writing. I am adding a section named 'Marshall's Analytical Approach'. Gani 13:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- It wasn't just that it was badly written. It was basically an opinion peace (not to say a 'rant') full of POV and original research. Stuff like "partial equilibrium is easy but general equilibrium is hard" and "Here's the difference between a partial derivative and a partial equilibrium..." just doesn't belong in an encyclopedic article. If you want a put in a section on Marshall's critics or criticisms of partial equilibrium that's fine. But it should be sourced and NPOV - i.e. report what the criticisms are without 1) making up some of your own, and 2) saying the critics are right and Marshall wrong. In fact, it's best of all to discuss this sort of thing on the talk page first.radek 22:26, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
I guess I now see why wikipedia is not the right place for original reseach. ThanksGani 00:03, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
