The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.More Alfred Marshall quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing stMore Alfred Marshall quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.More Alfred Marshall quotes [01/31/2012 11:01:45]

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.More Alfred Marshall quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.More Alfred Marshall quotes [01/31/2012 11:01:54]