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Alfred Marshall Quotes

Alfred Marshall quotes

English Economist July 26, 1842 – July 13, 1924

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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. Alfred Marshall
(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important in real life (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can’t succeed in 4, burn 3. This I do often. Alfred Marshall
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. Alfred Marshall
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. Alfred Marshall
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. Alfred Marshall
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. Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall quote: "Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature,..."
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. Alfred Marshall
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall quote: "Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms..."
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall quote: "Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as..."
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. Alfred Marshall
And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned. Alfred Marshall
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. Alfred Marshall
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall quote: "The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings"
The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings Alfred Marshall
Alfred Marshall quote: "Consumption may be regarded as negative production."
Consumption may be regarded as negative production. Alfred Marshall

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