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Title: The Moral Sciences Connection in Cambridge School of economics
Author: TOMO Shigeki
It is well-known that Keynes described economics as a moral science, but so far there has been few investigation in the contents of Moral Sciences at Cambridge University. If we should know that he presented his paper on Nature of Inference at a meeting of Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club, which was held on Friday, Nov. 6th, 1908 in the rooms of J. E. McTaggart, and that the other participants were leading Cambridge figures like A. Marshall, H. Sidgwick, J. N. Keynes, J. Venn, H. S. Foxwell, G. E. Moore, B. Russell, L. Wittgenstein, F. Ramsey, A. Turing, and that A. C. Pigou never attended the Club, then we, as historians of economics, would easily come to see the Moral Sciences as an indispensable clue to a deeper understanding of Chapter 12 of Keynes’s General Theory. This paper will show, by reviewing a brief history of the Moral Sciences Tripos as well as Club, how Moral Sciences had connected the above economists and philosophers together at Cambridge University.
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