Alfred Marshall

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Alfred Marshall was a pioneering British economist whose work helped found neoclassical economics and shaped generations of economic thought, including that of John Maynard Keynes.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic
author
economist
human
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1842-07-26
dateOfDeath 1924-07-13
educatedAt Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
employer Bristol University College
St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
University of Cambridge
familyName Marshall
fieldOfWork economics
political economy
fullName Alfred Marshall
givenName Alfred
hasAcademicDiscipline microeconomics
welfare economics
influenced Arthur Cecil Pigou
John Maynard Keynes
Lionel Robbins
neoclassical economics
influencedBy John Stuart Mill
Leon Walras
William Stanley Jevons
knownFor concept of price elasticity of demand
consumer surplus concept
distinction between short run and long run in economics
founding neoclassical economics
partial equilibrium analysis
theory of supply and demand
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf British Academy
movement neoclassical economics
nationality British
notableWork Industry and Trade
Money, Credit and Commerce
Principles of Economics
occupation author
economist
university teacher
placeOfBirth Clapham, London, England
placeOfDeath Cambridge, England
positionHeld Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge
religion Anglicanism
sexOrGender male
spouse Mary Paley Marshall
workLocation Cambridge, England


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