Cannan’s old-fashioned economics style transmitted to Robbins and Plant

Evidence

Cannan had been an Oxford student in the 1880s, part of a generation that with Ashley and Hewins had by the early 1900s turned away from the connection of reformist politics to economics. … Although Cannan’s understanding of economics was by the 1920s generally regarded as rather old-fashioned, the style carried over to many of his students, notable among them being Lionel Robbins and Arnold Plant, two of the later MPS members from Britain. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 396

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the MPS network genealogy — Robbins and Plant as later Mont Pèlerin members — connecting this chapter to the overarching theme of the book.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 396