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Alfred Marshall è stato un economista inglese, uno dei più influenti del suo tempo. Nel suo libro più famoso, Principi di economia - base dell'economia politica neoclassica a lungo rimasto in Inghilterra il testo di riferimento per l'economia - Marshall mette a sistema in maniera coerente i concetti di domanda e offerta, utilità marginale e costo della produzione.



Insegnò economia all'Università di Oxford e successivamente in quella di Cambridge.

Tra le sue opere più importanti anche il testo Industria e commercio . Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Luglio 1842 – 13. Luglio 1924
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Alfred Marshall Frasi e Citazioni

“Primo, usa la matematica piuttosto come un linguaggio stenografico, che come la molla della ricerca; secondo, attienti alla matematica solo finché giungi ai risultati; terzo, traduci poi i risultati in buona lingua; quarto, illustrali con esempi che abbiano importanza e che riguardino la vita reale; quinto, brucia quindi la matematica; sesto, se il punto quarto non ti riesce, brucia tutto.”

Alfred Marshall

Origine: Citato in Sergio Ricossa, Straborghese, Editoriale Nuova, Milano, 1980.

Sulla vita , Matematica , Ricerca

Alfred Marshall: Frasi in inglese

“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings;”

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Alfred Marshall libro Principles of Economics

Origine: Principles of Economics, (1890), p. 468 (9th ed. 2009).
Contesto: If we compare one country of the civilized world with another, or one part of England with another, or one trade in England with another, we find that the degradation of the working-classes varies almost uniformly with the amount of rough work done by women. The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings; and of that capital the most precious part is the result of the care and influence of the mother, so long as she retains her tender and unselfish instincts, and has not been hardened by the strain and stress of unfeminine work.

“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 well unlikely to be good economics: and I went more and more on the rules - (1) Use mathematics as shorthand 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 4, burn 3. This last I do often.”

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Letter to A.L. Bowley, 27 February 1906, cited in: David L. Sills, Robert King Merton, Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where http://books.google.com/books?id=WIKQbew5YKcC&pg=PA151 Transaction Publishers, 2000. p. 151.

“There has always been a temptation to classify economic goods in clearly defined groups, about which a number of short and sharp propositions could be made, to gratify at once the student’s desire for logical precision, and the popular liking for dogmas that have the air of being profound and are yet easily handled. But great mischief seems to have been done by yielding to this temptation, and drawing broad artificial lines of division where Nature has made none. The more simple and absolute an economic doctrine is, the greater will be the confusion which it brings into attempts to apply economic doctrines to practice, if the dividing lines to which it refers cannot be found in real life. There is not in real life a clear line of division between things that are and are not Capital, or that are and are not Necessaries, or again between labour that is and is not Productive.”

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Alfred Marshall libro Principles of Economics

Origine: Principles of Economics, (1890), p. viii (9th ed. 2009).

“I am myself an uncompromising anti-Jingoe, a peace-at-almost-any-price man. Chamberlain is the only Unionist public man whom I have ever thoroughly distrusted. Excepting Napoleon, I believe that England's true greatness has had no such dangerous enemy since Lord North. When a radical, he delighted to dish his colleagues even more than to flout his opponents. He is now engaged in dishing his new colleagues and flouting his old friends.”

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Alfred Marshall to N. G. Pierson, 6 April 1900

“Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life; it examines that part of individual and social action which is most closely connected with the attainment and with the use of the material requisites of wellbeing.”

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Alfred Marshall libro Principles of Economics

Bk I, Ch. I, Introduction
Principles of Economics, (1890)

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