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Alfred Marshall

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American politician (1797-1868)

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Born
1868-05-07
Died
1941-04-14
Works
28

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Alfred Marshall (born 26 July 1842 in Bermondsey, London, England, died 13 July 1924 in Cambridge, England) was an English economist and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics (1890), brings the ideas of supply and demand, of marginal utility and of the costs of production into a coherent whole. It became the dominant economic textbook in England for a long period. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alfred+Marshall">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • I am myself an uncompromising anti-Jingoe, a peace-at-almost-any-price man. Chamberlain is the only Unionist public man whom I have ever thoroughly distrusted. Excepting Napoleon, I believe that England's true greatness has had no such dangerous enemy since Lord North. When a radical, he delighted to dish his colleagues even more than to flout his opponents. He is now engaged in dishing his new colleagues and flouting his old friends.
  • Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of wellbeing.
  • The increment of the commodity which he is only just induced to acquire (whether by... direct labor or by purchase) may be called its Marginal Increment; because he is on the margin of doubt whether it is worth his while to incur the outlay required to obtain it. And the benefit-giving power, or Utility, of that increment to him may be called the Marginal Utility of the commodity to him.
  • And thus the law may be worded:—The of a commodity to anyone diminishes with every increase in the amount of it he already has.

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Instance of
human
Given name
Alfred
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
New Hampshire
Place of death
China
Occupation
politician
Languages spoken
English language
Work location
Washington, D.C.
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date of birth
1797-01-01
date of death
1868-10-02
name in native language
Alfred Marshall
place of burial
Maine
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