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

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: Adopt Both Civilized Countries Generally Gold Money Silver

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Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: Convenient Land Leading Name Producer Rent Species Surplus Which

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In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

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Topics: Absence Any Common Desirable Goods Human May Purpose Represent Satisfy Short Short Term Term Things Use Wants

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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

Topics: Century Classes Derives Gradually Hope Ignorance Indeed May Much Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Poverty Progress Steady Support Working

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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

Topics: Better Commodities Increased Inventions Labour Man Measured Money Much Nature Over Power Purposes Real Real Value Some Than Then Value Very

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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.

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Topics: Benefits Consist Derive Future Goods Hold Material Material Things Receive Rights Them Things Time Use Useful

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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: Basis Civil Custom Force Individual International International Law Law Least National Rest Rights Wealth

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And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: Amount Character Earned Exerted Hardly His Income Influence Less Often Person Than Very Way Which

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: July 26th, 1842

Died: July 13th, 1924

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