Alfred Marshall

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Alfred Marshall, a Giant Among Economists

   • Peter Groenewegen

   Pages 1-15

3. Family, Childhood and Education (1842–65)

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   Pages 16-27

4. Marshall’s Moral Sciences Apprenticeship and Search for a New Vocation (1866–77)

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   Pages 28-48

5. Bristol and Oxford (1877–84) and Two ‘Small’ Books (1879)

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6. Professor at Cambridge (1885–1908) and Adviser to Governments

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7. Writing and Revising the Principles (1882–1922)

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8. Political and Social Thought: ‘A Youthful Tendency to Socialism’; Changing Views on the Women’s Issue; and a Taste for Advocacy and Occasional Controversy

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   Pages 116-138

9. Retirement and Industry and Trade (1919): An Important Companion Volume to the Principles

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10. Final Years and Some Further Volumes (1919–24)

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    Pages 162-184

11. A Rich and Enduring Legacy

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12. Back Matter

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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.

• Alfred Marshall
• education
• sets
• socialism
• trade

• University of Sydney, Australia

  Peter Groenewegen

PETER GROENEWEGEN has been an active researcher in the history of economic thought for nearly fifty years, covering many aspects of the subject. He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has published many books on the history of economic thought, including a widely acclaimed biography of Alfred Marshall, a collection in translation of Turgot's major writings on economics, and three volumes of his essays on the history of economics. As Director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Economic Thought from 1989 to 2003, he edited several volumes of conference proceedings and in 2005 his services to the subject were recognised by both the History of Economics Society (which named him a Distinguished Fellow) and the European Society of the History of Economic Thought (which made him an Honorary Member).

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