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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Alfred Marshall Read Quote
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. Alfred Marshall Read Quote
Producer’s Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. Alfred Marshall Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. Alfred Marshall Read Quote
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. Alfred Marshall Read Quote
