Download or read book Alfred Marshall written by Peter Groenewegen and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Marshall was undoubtedly the doyen of British economics for three and a half decades, commencing in 1890, the year his Principles of Economics was first published. 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.