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Alfred Marshall

About the Author

Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was a British economist known for helping to found the school of English neoclassical economics, building on the work of Adam Smith and David Ricardo with fresh mathematical rigor.  His best-known work, Principles of Economics (1890), was the leading economic textbook in England for generations of students.