A. Marshall, 1842–1924

Abstract

The main facts of Marshall’s life are well-known, and are set out in the very fine account given by Keynes who worked from material supplied by Mrs Marshall. 1 Alfred Marshall was born on 26 July 1842. Rebelling against a parental preference for classics and the Church, he went to St. John’s College, Cambridge, read mathematics, and graduated as Second Wrangler in 1865. A period spent as a Fellow of St John’s led him to economics and to marriage with Mary Paley, one of the pioneer women undergraduates at Cambridge. The years 1877–82 were spent at Bristol University College, chiefly as its principal. After a short spell at Oxford, Marshall was elected to the Chair of Political Economy at Cambridge, taking up the post in January 1885 and holding it until his retirement in 1908 when he was followed by his chosen successor A. C. Pigou. Greatly revered as the leading economist in the Anglo-Saxon world he died on 13 July 1924. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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