Front Page Authors (by Period) Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall

1842 - 1924

About the Author

Alfred Marshall, English economist at the University of Cambridge, reconciled many neoclassical economic concepts and introduced many of the modern terms and diagrams used today by economists. His teaching covered marginal utility, elasticity of demand, production costs, and consumer surplus.

In The Library:

• foreword: The Postulates of English Political Economy (1885)
• author: Principles of Economics (8th ed.) (1890)