Alfred Marshall was undoubtedly the doyen of British economics for three and a half decades. This work presents an overview of Marshall's life and work as an economist and sets his major economic contributions in perspective, by looking at his education, his teaching at Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol, and his political and social opinions.

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.

Introduction: Alfred Marshall, a Giant among Economists - Family, Childhood and Education (1842-1865) - Marshall's Moral Sciences Apprenticeship and Search for a Vocation - Bristol and Oxford (1877-1884) and Two 'Small Books' (1879) - Professor at Cambridge (1885-1908) and Adviser to Governments - Writing, and Revising, the Principles (1882-1922) - Political Social Thought: 'A Youthful Tendency to Socialism', Changing Views on the Women's Issue, and a Taste for Advocacy and Occasional Controversy - Retirement and Industry and Trade, an Important Companion Volume to the Principles - Final Years and some Further Volumes (1919-1924) - A Rich and Enduring
Legacy - Bibliography - Chronological Bibliography of Marshall's Writings