Author: Alfred Marshall

Quotes

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

- Alfred Marshall

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.

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.

- Alfred Marshall

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

- Alfred Marshall

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

- Alfred Marshall

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

- Alfred Marshall

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.

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.

- Alfred Marshall

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

- Alfred Marshall

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