Alfred Marshall
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Alfred Marshall Net Worth

Alfred Marshall was a renowned English economist born in 1842 in Bermondsey, British. He is widely considered one of the greatest economists of all time and is best known for his book 'Principles of Economics', which was the most prescribed textbook in economics in England for many years. His works covered a wide range of fields in economics, but his specialty was microeconomics. He was the one who emphasized on the concept of price elasticity of demand, a very important concept in the study of demand and supply of goods. Marshall's works are still relevant in the 21st century, despite the tremendous progress economic science has made over the century. He was a brilliant mathematician from a young age and eventually turned to economics as he believed it was a means of improving materialistic conditions. He wrote books in a style that the layman could easily understand, making economics accessible to all.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Economist
Birth Day July 26, 1842
Birth Place Bermondsey, British
Age 177 YEARS OLD
Died On 13 July 1924(1924-07-13) (aged 81)\nCambridge, England
Birth Sign Leo
Institution St John's College, Cambridge University College, Bristol Balliol College, Oxford
School or tradition Neoclassical economics
Alma mater St John's College, Cambridge
Influences Léon Walras, Vilfredo Pareto, Jules Dupuit, Stanley Jevons, Henry Sidgwick
Contributions Founder of neoclassical economics Principles of Economics (1890)

💰 Net worth

Alfred Marshall, a renowned British economist, is projected to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million by the year 2024. Marshall, recognized as a pioneer in the field of economics, has left a lasting impact on the discipline with his seminal work on the theory of supply and demand. His contributions, notably his book "Principles of Economics," continue to be highly regarded in academic circles. Marshall's net worth underscores his significant achievements and his invaluable contributions to the field of economics.

Famous Quotes:

(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."

Biography/Timeline

1865

Marshall was elected in 1865 to a fellowship at St John's College at Cambridge, and became lecturer in the moral sciences in 1868. In 1885 he became professor of political economy at Cambridge, where he remained until his retirement in 1908. Over the years he interacted with many British thinkers including Henry Sidgwick, W.K. Clifford, Benjamin Jowett, william Stanley Jevons, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, John Neville Keynes and John Maynard Keynes. Marshall founded the "Cambridge School" which paid special attention to increasing returns, the theory of the firm, and welfare economics; after his retirement leaderships passed to Arthur Cecil Pigou and John Maynard Keynes.

1870

Marshall desired to improve the mathematical rigour of economics and transform it into a more scientific profession. In the 1870s he wrote a small number of tracts on international trade and the problems of protectionism. In 1879, many of these works were compiled into a work entitled The Theory of Foreign Trade: The Pure Theory of Domestic Values. In the same year (1879) he published The Economics of Industry with his wife Mary Paley.

1877

Marshall had been Mary Paley's professor of political economy at Cambridge and the two were married in 1877, forcing Marshall to leave his position as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge to comply with celibacy rules at the university. He became the first principal at University College, Bristol, which was the institution that later became the University of Bristol, again lecturing on political economy and economics. He perfected his Economics of Industry while at Bristol, and published it more widely in England as an economic curriculum; its simple form stood upon sophisticated theoretical foundations. Marshall achieved a measure of fame from this work, and upon the death of william Jevons in 1882, Marshall became the leading British Economist of the scientific school of his time.

1880

His health problems had gradually grown worse since the 1880s, and in 1908 he retired from the university. He hoped to continue work on his Principles but his health continued to deteriorate and the project had continued to grow with each further investigation. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 prompted him to revise his examinations of the international economy and in 1919 he published Industry and Trade at the age of 77. This work was a more empirical treatise than the largely theoretical Principles, and for that reason it failed to attract as much acclaim from theoretical economists. In 1923, he published Money, Credit, and Commerce, a broad amalgam of previous economic ideas, published and unpublished, stretching back a half-century.

1881

Marshall began his economic work, the Principles of Economics, in 1881, and spent much of the next decade at work on the treatise. His plan for the work gradually extended to a two-volume compilation on the whole of economic thought. The first volume was published in 1890 to worldwide acclaim, establishing him as one of the leading economists of his time. The second volume, which was to address foreign trade, money, trade fluctuations, taxation, and collectivism, was never published.

1883

Marshall returned to Cambridge, via a brief period at Balliol College, Oxford during 1883–4, to take the seat as Professor of Political Economy in 1884 on the death of Henry Fawcett. At Cambridge he endeavoured to create a new tripos for economics, a goal which he would only achieve in 1903. Until that time, economics was taught under the Historical and Moral Sciences Triposes which failed to provide Marshall the kind of energetic and specialised students he desired.

1889

Marshall served as President of the first day of the 1889 Co-operative Congress.

1890

From 1890 to 1924 he was the respected father of the economic profession and to most economists for the half-century after his death, the venerable grandfather. He had shied away from controversy during his life in a way that previous Leaders of the profession had not, although his even-handedness drew great respect and even reverence from fellow economists, and his home at Balliol Croft in Cambridge had no shortage of distinguished guests. His students at Cambridge became leading figures in economics, including John Maynard Keynes and Arthur Cecil Pigou. His most important legacy was creating a respected, academic, scientifically founded profession for economists in the Future that set the tone of the field for the remainder of the 20th century.

1930

Gary Becker (1930-2014), the 1992 Nobel prize winner in economics, has mentioned that Milton Friedman and Alfred Marshall were the two greatest influences on his work.

1944

Alfred Marshall's wife was Mary Paley, co-founder of Newnham College; she continued to live in Balliol Croft until her death in 1944; her ashes were scattered in the garden.

1991

His home, Balliol Croft, was renamed Marshall House in 1991 in his honour when it was bought by Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

2013

Over the next two decades he worked to complete the second volume of his Principles, but his unyielding attention to detail and ambition for completeness prevented him from mastering the work's breadth. The work was never finished and many other, lesser works he had begun work on – a memorandum on trade policy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1890s, for instance – were left incomplete for the same reasons.

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