Talk:Alfred Marshall

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Marshall needs more material. Pick up any Microeconomics text book today and it will be a knock-off of Samuelson's rewrite of Marshall, he is that influential. -E Plumlee (11/10)

I totally agree, he is a sweet guy.-HAMMIE!!!!

Users of Wikipedia might be interested in a new website launched to mark the 120th anniversary of Marshall's Principles of Economics https://sites.google.com/site/theendofthemarket/. The initial argument is that the book distilled the logic behind the idea of the market-clearing price, which in turn made possible mass markets and mass production. The main argument is that the logic behind the market-clearing price founders when applied to services/intangibles. EO'S

Supply and Demand[edit]

Not to take away from Marshall, who was a sweet guy, but I understand Cournot was the first to derive supply and demand curves, back in 1848. Marshall just popularized it. I don't have a reference handy but I think it's pretty well established in History of Economic Thought literature radek 08:18, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Original Research Badly Written, Really?[edit]

Radeksz removed my commentray on Marshall's critics, and the removal is not neutral. Perhaps the commentary was badly written. In that case, the edit should have improved the writing. I am adding a section named 'Marshall's Analytical Approach'. Gani 13:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't just that it was badly written. It was basically an opinion peace (not to say a 'rant') full of POV and original research. Stuff like "partial equilibrium is easy but general equilibrium is hard" and "Here's the difference between a partial derivative and a partial equilibrium..." just doesn't belong in an encyclopedic article. If you want a put in a section on Marshall's critics or criticisms of partial equilibrium that's fine. But it should be sourced and NPOV - i.e. report what the criticisms are without 1) making up some of your own, and 2) saying the critics are right and Marshall wrong. In fact, it's best of all to discuss this sort of thing on the talk page first.radek 22:26, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I now see why wikipedia is not the right place for original reseach. ThanksGani 00:03, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merchant Taylors'[edit]

1) It's Merchant Taylors' School, not Taylor's 2) The school was at Suffolk Lane in the City of London until 1875, when it moved to Charterhouse Square. It only moved out of the City to Northwood in 1933.

82.21.253.16 (talk) 20:34, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The quote of the letter from the main article seems wrong [maybe it's about other letter, I don't know]

This is what I have found:

“But I know I had a growing feeling in the later years of my work at the subject that a good mathematical theorem dealing with economic hypothesis was very unlikely to be good economics: and I went more and more on the rules - (1) use mathematics as a short hand 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 four, burn three. This last I did it often… I think you should do all you can to prevent people from using mathematics in cases in which the English language is as short as the mathematical.”

The quote is taken from: Weintraub, Roy, E.: “How Economics became a mathematical science”, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2002, page 22, which cites Groenewegen, 1995, 413 And: it is about a letter of Alfred Marshall addressed to Arthur Bowley from 27 February 1906.

Cristiann (talk) 06:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

place of birth[edit]

It has Bermondsey and then Clapham as Marshall's birthplace. Which is it? Evelyn1974 (talk) 05:54, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fellow of the British Academy[edit]

He was FBA, added to article.

2.27.127.179 (talk) 15:47, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dr. Grieve's comment on this article[edit]

Dr. Grieve has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:


Quite a reasonable entry, but could have said more to locate Marshall in the context of the development of economic thought; also some indication of the of subsequent criticisms of Marshall's economics would be appropriate.

I am forwarding a suggestion for a revised entry. The first part on Marshall's life and career consists simply of what is in the present Wikipedia article, bur somewhat rearranged. With the second part, on Marshall's economics, I have tried to orovide a rather fuller overview of the nature and place of Marshall's contribution.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8-wWhGFpGYCZW9OaktTanU5R1k/view?usp=sharing


We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

We believe Dr. Grieve has expertise on the topic of this article, since he has published relevant scholarly research:


  • Reference : Roy Grieve, 2008. "Economic Geometry: Marshalls and Other Early Representations of Demand and Supply," Working Papers 0806, University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics.

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Section "Contributions to Economics" Garden path and possible error[edit]

You say that 'Marshall had been Mary Paley's professor of political economy at Cambridge . . .' Several named professorships at Cambridge use the possessive e.g "Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity" This is therefore a "garden path" phrase - I first thought of the "Mary Paley's professor of political economy". More to the point, was Marshall a professor in 1877? (Of course, this title was much rarer in the 19th century, and there were no titles of "Assistant Professor".) Martin Nutt (martin@igelbau.com) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.167.229 (talk) 10:18, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Economics[edit]

alferd marshall definition of economics 103.186.197.181 (talk) 16:33, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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