I posted notes on the young #AlfredMarshalland the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos to my research site:

https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home

#Keynes started the myth that Marshall suffered a mental crisis in his mid 20s. There's no evidence of that, but it's interesting that people have run with it -- a breakdown seems to be what the story needs. Why the epidemic of such crises among European intellectuals late 19th and early 20th century?

#HistoryoftheBody #HistoryofEconomicThought

Now that my following has surged into double digits, a moment of sharing and peeps-seeking. I've put up here:

https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home

some notes and mini-working-papers from a project on body, nation, race, and economy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Most interested in hearing from others working in these areas.

#CharlesBabbage
#HerbertSpencer
#AlfredMarshall
#eugenics
#Neurasthenia
#IrvingFisher
#Keynes
#JamesMeade
#HistoryofEconomicThought
#HistoryoftheBody