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, loc. 396