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Marshall’s social philosophy and views on economic policy seem to have developed gradually without radical break from their earliest expression, still strongly under Mill’s influence, to the mature form assumed by the time the Principles appeared.1 The stage reached by 1885 is well epitomised in his declaration to the Industrial Remuneration Conference.
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Whitaker, J.K. (1975). Wider Themes — Social Thought and Economic Policy. In: Whitaker, J.K. (eds) The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02479-7_3
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