Alfred Marshall

the long version

Alfred Marshall was undoubtedly the doyen of British economics for three and a half decades and is perhaps best known for his famous work Principles in Economics, first published in 1890. This succinct overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his travel, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, his policy views as presented to government inquiries and his political and social opinions.