Edwin Cannan

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Edwin Cannan (1861-1935) was a British economist. He was known as a critic of the classical economic theories of the nineneenth century. He was a professor at the London School of Economics from 1895 to 1926.

According to Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Cannan emphasised the institutional foundation of economic systems.^[1]

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

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1. ^ 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.

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