References and further reading
Since Sidgwick is today read as a moral philosopher, no reliable evaluation exists of his political and economic arguments. However, his significance for Cambridge economics is outlined in Backhouse (2006).
The best treatment of Sidgwick’s thought remains Schneewind (1977); Schultz’s intellectual biography (2004) is very long, but far from comprehensive. Stefan Collini has written on Sidgwick in various places, summarized in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry.Backhouse, R. (2006), ‘Sidgwick, Marshall, and the Cambridge School of Economics’, History of Political Economy, 38 (1), 15-44.
Collini, S. (2004), ‘Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Harrod, R. (1951), The Life of John Maynard Keynes, London: Macmillan.
Schneewind, J.B. (1977), Sidgwick’s Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Schultz, B. (2004), Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe. An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sidgwick, Henry (1874), The Methods of Ethics, 7th edn 1907, London: Macmillan.
Sidgwick, Henry (1883), The Principles of Political Economy, London: Macmillan.
Sidgwick, Henry (1891), The Elements of Politics, London: Macmillan.