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Alfred Marshall
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Alfred Marshall
Age: 82 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 1
Died: 1924
Died: January 1
Economist
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University Teacher
Bermondsey
Surrey
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The love for money is only one among many.
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We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
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Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.
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Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.
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The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.
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The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.
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Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
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Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.
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Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
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Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.
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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.
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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
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Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
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The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings
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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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