Alfred Marshall

Alfred Marshall (July 26 1842 - July 13 1924), born in Bermondsey, London, England, became one of the most influential economistss of his time. His book, Principles of Political Economy (1890) brought together the theories of supply and demand, of marginal utility and of the costs of production into a coherent whole. It became the dominant economic textbook in England for a long period.

Marshall worked as a professor at Cambridge University, where his pupils included John Maynard Keynes and Arthur Cecil Pigou.