Edwin Cannan, 1861-1935.

A partisan of Jevonianism, Edwin Cannan is perhaps best known for his logical dissection and destruction of Classical theory in his famous 1898 tract History of the Theories of Production and Distribution. Although Cannan had personal and professional difficulties with Alfred Marshall, he was still   "Marshall's man" at the L.S.E. from 1895 to 1926. During that time, particularly during his long stretch as chairman after 1907, Edwin Cannan shepherded the LSE away from its roots in Fabian socialism into tentative Marshallianism. This period was only to last, however, until his protege, Lionel Robbins, took over with his more "Continental" ideas.

Major Works of Edwin Cannan

• Elementary Political Economy, 1888.
• "The Origin of the Law of Diminishing Returns, 1813-15", 1892, EJ
• "Ricardo in Parliament", 1894, EJ
• A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution in English Political Economy from 1776 to 1848., 1898.
• "Preface and Introduction to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations" , 1904.
• The Economic Outlook, 1912.
• Wealth, 1914.
• "Early History of the term "Capital"", 1921, QJE
• "An Application of the Theoretical Apparatus of Supply and Demand to Units of Currency", 1921, EJ
• Money: Its connexion with rising and falling prices, 1923.
• "Monetary Reform", with J.M. Keynes, Addis and Milner, 1924, EJ
• An Economist's Protest, 1927.

Resources on Edwin Cannann

• Cannan Page at McMaster
• Cannan Archives at L.S.E.
• "Review of Cannan's Wealth", by J. E. Le Rossignol, 1914, AER