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I would like to add to Jan Pieter Schulz's question. I have for some  
time been 
putting a similar question to historians of economic thought.  
Specifically, I 
ask: 
 
I have had a long standing problem with Cambridge economists (for  
me, starting with Joan R.) who criticize neoclassical economics by  
asserting that neoclassical theory has an essential assumption of  
perfect knowledge or perfect information. Since Alfred Marshall  
explicitly denied such an assumption in his Book 6, do you have  
any idea, as an historian of economic thought, where any (or the  
first) proponent of neoclassical economics actually made such an  
assumption?   
 
My suspicion is that this is a can that has been tied to the tail of  
neoclassical economics by the critics.   
 
Lawrence A. Boland 
Simon Fraser University 
 
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