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A peculiar archaeology: Searching for Mr Giffen's behaviour
Authors:Michael V. White
Affiliation:1. mike.white@monash.edu.au
Abstract:Abstract

It has been claimed that references to ‘Giffen behaviour’ constituted a single research project, driven by attempts to establish whether an initial ‘conjecture’ by Alfred Marshall had empirical validity. There is no stable basis for that claim because Marshall's discussion was contradictory and Robert Giffen rejected a key assumption made by Marshall. By the mid-1920s, discussion of an upward-sloping demand curve attached no particular significance to a Marshallian story. The formulation of the Irish famine Giffen exemplar by P.A. Samuelson illustrates how Giffen behaviour was stabilised as the single possible exception to the law of demand in the 1960s.
Keywords:Giffen good  Marshall  Samuelson  Viner  Irish famine
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