Alfred Marshall Quotes

In The Absence Of Any Short Term In Common Use To Represent All Desirable Things, Or Things That Satisfy Human Wants, We May Use The Term Goods For That Purpose.

In Every Age Poets And Social Reformers Have Tried To Stimulate The People Of Their Own Time To A Nobler Life By Enchanting Stories Of The Virtues Of The Heroes Of Old.

Though A Simple Book Can Be Written On Selected Topics, The Central Doctrines Of Economics Are Not Simple And Cannot Be Made So.

Individual And National Rights To Wealth Rest On The Basis Of Civil And International Law, Or At Least Of Custom That Has The Force Of Law.

Again, Most Of The Chief Distinctions Marked By Economic Terms Are Differences Not Of Kind But Of Degree.

And Very Often The Influence Exerted On A Person's Character By The Amount Of His Income Is Hardly Less, If It Is Less, Than That Exerted By The Way In Which It Is Earned.

The Hope That Poverty And Ignorance May Gradually Be Extinguished Derives Indeed Much Support From The Steady Progress Of The Working Classes During The 19th Century.

Material Goods Consist Of Useful Material Things, And Of All Rights To Hold, Or Use, Or Derive Benefits From Material Things, Or To Receive Them At A Future Time.

Producer's Surplus Is A Convenient Name For The Genus Of Which The Rent Of Land Is The Leading Species.

Slavery Was Regarded By Aristotle As An Ordinance Of Nature, And So Probably Was It By The Slaves Themselves In Olden Time.

The Commercial Storm Leaves Its Path Strewn With Ruin. When It Is Over There Is Calm, But A Dull, Heavy Calm.

All Labour Is Directed Towards Producing Some Effect.