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20Econometric Methodology Ii the Role of the Philosophy of ScienceDepartment of Economics, University of Southampton. 1996.
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14The Tragedy of Cambridge Anthropology: Edwardian Historical Thought and the Contact of PeoplesHistory of European Ideas 42 (4): 541-553. 2016.SUMMARYThe essay identifies and explores the intellectual formation of a hitherto overlooked constellation of ‘anthropologists’ in Edwardian Cambridge. Three core members of this group were William Ridgeway, Hector Munro Chadwick, and William H. R. Rivers, who today are more normally associated with Classics, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Anthropology. However, in the decade before World War I all three were active members of the new Board of Anthropology, and each, in his particular field of study, …Read more
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18The Making of the English: English History, British Identity, Aryan Villages, 1870–1914Journal of the History of Ideas 75 (4): 629-649. 2014.
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17Squaring the Shield: William Ridgeway's Two Models of Early GreeceHistory of European Ideas 40 (5): 693-713. 2014.SummaryFrom the early 1880s the Cambridge-trained classicist William Ridgeway had applied cutting-edge anthropological theory to his reading of ancient Greek literature in order to develop an evolutionary account of the continuous development of early Greek social institutions. Then, at the turn of the century, he began to argue that archaeological evidence demonstrated that the Achaean warriors described by Homer were in origin Germanic tribesmen from north of the Alps who had but recently conq…Read more
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28Late Victorian visual reasoning and Alfred Marshall's economic scienceBritish Journal for the History of Science 38 (2): 179-195. 2005.Today the economic diagram is employed universally in teaching and research by professional economists. Yet the history of its construction shows that much that has been regarded as distinctive of twentieth-century visual culture was prefigured in the nineteenth. This paper will place the construction of the first economic diagrams by Alfred Marshall in the context both of contemporary visual technologies developed in other moral sciences, and of his wider theory of industrial production. The pa…Read more
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36Minds, machines and economic agents: Cambridge receptions of Boole and BabbageStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36 (2): 331-350. 2005.In the 1860s and 1870s the logic of Boole and the calculating machines of Babbage were key resources in W. S. Jevons’s attempt to construct a mechanical model of the mind, and both therefore played an important role in Jevons’s attempted revolution in economic theory. In this same period both Boole and Babbage were studied within the Cambridge Moral Sciences Tripos, but the Cambridge reading of Boole and Babbage was much more circumspect. Implicitly following the division of the moral sciences i…Read more
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15Race, Science, and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and GermanyHistory of European Ideas 41 (2): 292-294. 2015.