Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)
Alfred Marshall was born in Clapham, England, the son of a
bank cashier, and was descended from a long line of clerics.
Marshall’s father, despite intense effort, was unable to steer
the young Marshall into the church. Instead, Marshall followed
his passion for mathematics at Cambridge and chose
economics as a field of study after reading J. S. Mill’s Principles
of Political Economy. His career was then spent mainly at
Cambridge, where he taught economics to John Maynard
Keynes, Arthur Pigou, Joan Robinson, and countless other