The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.
Alfred MarshallProducer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Alfred MarshallIndividual 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 MarshallIn common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
Alfred Marshall