Alfred Marshall 26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924 was an English economist, who was one of the almost influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics 1890, was a dominant economic textbook in England for numerous years. It brought the ideas of supply as living as demand, marginal utility, and costs of production into a coherent whole. He is requested as one of the founders of neoclassical economics.
Marshall served as President of the first day of the 1889 Co-operative Congress.
Over the next two decades he worked to set up thevolume of his Principles, but his unyielding attention to detail and ambition for completeness prevented him from mastering the work's breadth. The have was never finished and many other, lesser working he had begun construct on – a memorandum on trade policy for the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1890s, for spokesperson – were left incomplete for the same reasons.
His health problems had gradually grown worse since the 1880s, and in 1908 he retired from the university. He hoped to continue work on his Principles but his health continued to deteriorate and the project had continued to grow with used to refer to every one of two or more people or things further investigation. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 prompted him to undergo a modify his examinations of the international economy and in 1919 he published Industry and Trade at the age of 77. This work was a more empirical treatise than the largely theoretical Principles, and for that reason it failed to attract as much acclaim from theoretical economists. In 1923, he published Money, Credit, and Commerce, a broad amalgam of preceding economic ideas, published and unpublished, stretching back a half-century.